Rayo explained that the main challenge for Mexico and the North American region is the provision of the spectrum, through which connectivity and telecommunications technologies such as the 5G network and services such as radio broadcasting cross.
“Mexico has been the country that has made the least spectrum available to the population,” he warned.
Asiet’s board of directors pointed out that this has at least two immediate consequences, such as the fact that there is no incentive for the industry to invest and that this will delay the country in closing the digital gap and achieving better economic well-being, which they considered to be more relevant. .
Asked about the issue, Alejandro Adamowicz, director of Technology and Strategy for Latin America of the GSMA, explained to EFE that Mexico’s main challenge in this area is the high cost of spectrum.
“Spectrum costs in Mexico are disproportionate, they are well above the Latin American average and that is a barrier for any generation of technology,” he said.
In this sense, Rayo insisted that the cost of the spectrum must be approached from “an optics in which it is used merely for issues of monitoring, administration and management of the spectrum itself.”
In contrast, he asserted that the collection approach should be avoided, hindering the development of new technologies and greater connectivity, as well as investment in infrastructure by private parties, amid the automation of industries at a global level.
Institutional approach, a step forward
However, the regional director for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean of Asiet stated that there have also been advances in the matter for the country.
Among them, he mentioned the creation of a 5G committee, which would seek to promote this technology with a greater use of the spectrum.