Mexico. The Federal Institute of Telecommunications, IFT, presented its first Statistical Yearbook 2015, which contains information collected and analyzed from the telecommunications and broadcasting (TyR) sectors in Mexico.
The document complements the series of indicators published by the Institute through its Quarterly Statistical Reports and includes, for the first time, two dimensions of information: a geographical disaggregation, with detailed information for each Federative Entity in the country and for the Mexican Republic as a whole; and another by type of subscriptions, which allows to have information differentiating the data of the households and those of the economic units.
The report, available on the portal www.ift.org.mx in the Statistics section, summarizes the main indicators monitored during 2015, when the T&R sectors represented around 3.3% of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
In the report, which includes figures in open data format to achieve a better experience in the consultation and management of information by the public, it offers the following information:
- GDP and employment generated from the T&T sectors
- Penetration of telecommunications services
- Technological equipment of homes and companies
- AM and FM radio stations and free-to-air TV
- Comparison of the evolution of the penetration and expenditure of telecommunications services by household income levels (years 2010, 2012 and 2014)
- Adoption of the computer and internet in households and economic units
From the results observed in the 2015 Statistical Yearbook of the IFT, it stands out that between 2010 and 2014 the adoption of fixed telecommunications services increased by at least 10% in the population levels of lower income (deciles I, II, III), so that more people from this socioeconomic segment have access to services such as fixed telephony, Internet and restricted television. Likewise, spending on these services as a proportion of their income decreased by at least 15% in the same period.
Similarly, in the same population segment, the adoption of mobile telecommunications services, which includes mobile telephony and Internet, grew by at least 29%, while spending as a proportion of revenues fell by at least 27%.
According to data from the 2014 Economic Census, there are about 4.2 million economic units throughout the country, of which the small business segment, which has up to 10 employees, represents 95%. This segment of economic units is the one that registers the lowest adoption of computer and Internet, since only 20% used computer and 16% Internet.
Notwithstanding the above, the figures change radically for companies with more than 11 employees, a segment in which at least 80% of companies registered having a computer and the Internet. In this way, it highlights the association that exists between the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the operations of the Economic Units and the size of the same, measured through the number of employees.
With regard to ICT equipment, the report shows that from 2014 to 2015 the availability of analog televisions decreased at an annual rate of -13%, while that of digital televisions increased at an annual rate of 58%; it is important to emphasize that this last figure only refers to the availability of the equipment and does not consider households that have analogue TV with decoder for digital signal, nor those that have analogue TV with pay-TV service; that of radio apparatus decreased at an annual rate of -10 per cent and that of computer equipment grew at an annual rate of 17 per cent.
In reference to the consumption of television and radio, the contrast between the behavior of the percentage of people with the television on, which reaches its maximum with 30% between 21:30 hrs and 22:00 hrs, and the behavior of the percentage of people with the radio on, which reaches its maximum at 19% between 10:00 hrs and 10:30 hrs.
The IFT carries out the 2015 Statistical Yearbook based on information provided by operators in the telecommunications sector, as well as information collected and published by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) and the National Population Council (CONAPO). The document presents disaggregated data on different indicators with the aim of providing increasing information on the evolution of the sectors regulated by the IFT.
