After a long process of amparo and lawsuits, which even reached the supreme court, the competent authority IFETEL limited the long distance rate to 0.75 M.N. It should be totally free.
Within this legal and technical struggle for the “interconnection rate”. Marcatel was attacked with a recording that the telephone monopoly inserted into each call. Despite all the political and legal efforts that were implemented, the recording continued to be inserted in all calls for more than a year and a half. Given the nullity of the effect of the Mexican authorities, a complaint was filed with the USTR unit of the United States, and the immediate reaction of this North American unit made the monopoly officials remove it immediately, the reason being a wrong interpretation of the contracts of interconnection.
The legal procedures continued for more than 8 years and finally, after hundreds of legal upheavals, Marcatel was granted reason. Mark the promoted cost incident. The legal authority will limit the amount to be paid to $119,110,204.83 pesos, which the monopoly refused to pay through an embargo in one of the Bancomer accounts of the monopoly company and after hundreds of legal tricks to defend itself, the payment of the embargo was concluded on the day 10/26/20.
Since then and after smoking the pipe of peace, all monopoly actions have been stopped and action has been played on a level playing field.