Expansion Transparency requested information from CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos on the current situation of the optical fiber supplied by Prysmian Group, but the subsidiary of the state company could not provide information in this regard because it denied having entered into a contract with the company.
In a second request via transparency, the CFE subsidiary argued that it did not find any document related to a contract signed with Prysmian, so it could not explain what has happened to the 15,000 kilometers of fiber optics that have been supplied since 2020 to this year.
Expansion sought the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and the company did not elaborate on the whereabouts of the 15,000 kilometers of fiber optics that it obtained from the aforementioned company.
Prysmian Group explained that the contract entered into with the CFE for the supply of fiber optic cables was concluded with the delivery of the material at the beginning of this year and acknowledged that it does not know what CFE and its subsidiary have done with the 15,000 kilometers of fiber optics. or if they have already started the deployment of cabling that they have supplied for two years.
Expansion It has copies of documents that account for the fiber optic supply that Prysmian made to various CFE delivery centers, as well as the failure of the tender for the Smart Electricity Network (REI) connectivity project.
For Michel Hernández Tafoya, director of Observatel, the response of the subsidiary company of the CFE is “unusual”. “You have to account from the point of view of what the government has already spent,” he said. “That a state body that received 15,000 kilometers of fiber optics cannot identify them and tell us where they are seems very worrying to me,” he concluded. executive.