The antennas will be placed in hard-to-reach locations. José Carlos Paredes Aguirre, manager of the distribution division of the southeast, specified that they will go to regions such as Lacandona in Chiapas, Mixe de Oaxaca and Los Ríos de Tabasco and to achieve this they will take advantage of CFE’s infrastructure such as high-voltage towers and structures. that will allow receiving from a telecommunications center a signal via satellite so that other antennas also have cell phone reception that includes voice and data service.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said that in Mexico there are about 300,000 locations scattered in small communities, so it is planned to use satellites to connect these areas due to the complexity of reaching those sites.
While in towns like Jol Hic’Batil in Chiapas; Chilon, Chiapas; Zimatlan de Alvarez, Oaxaca; and in Comalcalco, Tabasco; As there is no infrastructure and they are difficult to access sites, they will have to start from scratch.
“The electromechanical work will be carried out, the effort of which is focused on the transportation of the installation of the telecommunications antennas, whose weight exceeds 500 kilos and which will have to be transported by boat to reach the communities and cross rivers such as the Grijalva in Chiapas. and the Usumacinta”, assures Paredes.
According to data from ENDUTIH 2021, in Mexico only 81.6% of the population is an internet user. Of this percentage, 56.5% is in urban areas and 56.5% in rural areas. Chiapas, Oaxaca and Veracruz are the entities with the least access to the internet at home.
Seeks to increase fiber optic network
To achieve quality telecommunications services, fiber optics are necessary. The subsidiary company of the CFE assured that its network already has an advance of 8,000 activated km of fiber optics and by the end of this year they will reach 16,000 km, this as part of the axes of the project that is to use fiber cables that are already installed in the CFE’s high-voltage towers with the support of CFE Transmission. “We have been advancing for 2 years giving maintenance to the optical fiber and lighting it with state-of-the-art technology.”
It has also enabled 4,000 Wi-Fi points in schools, hospitals, libraries and public places in the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Tabasco and at a national level they have 42,832 access points. The goal at the end of 2022 is to reach 60,000.