Mexico. Due to the controversy that has been generated in Mexico by the request of several industry voices to postpone the analog blackout scheduled for December 31 of this year, the Federal Institute of Telecommunications, IFT, issued the following statement:
Since its creation, the Federal Telecommunications Institute has been respectful of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and the laws governing its actions. This has involved the observance of legal deadlines for the fulfilment of various mandates, many of them short.
The IFT has also been respectful of the opinions expressed regarding the exercise of its functions. It is even now that Senator Javier Lozano contradicts the legal framework that he approved and defended not without little enthusiasm, and accuses this Institution of being insensitive for the fact of complying with it fully, as is its obligation.
The Institute works within the framework of the law and with the elements that the law gives it. This is the duty of all institutions under the rule of law. If you didn't want the transition to Digital Terrestrial Television to end on December 31, 2015, why did you approve it like this? If you didn't want anticipated analog blackouts, why did you approve them? If a higher level of penetration of digital receivers was sought, why did the IFT force the IFT to turn off analog signals with 90% penetration in the most scarce households?
Finally, if in his opinion the problem is not the law he passed, why do he so actively insist on changing it? The only thing that can be held responsible for the Institute is to comply with the law, that law that the Senator voted in favor.
If what is intended is for the Institute to violate its constitutional mandate on the grounds that failure to do so is "insensitive", that will not happen. In the IFT we comply with what the law marks us, for an efficient development of broadcasting and telecommunications, for the benefit of Mexicans.
