Telmex serves 21.3 million users, of which 10.1 million correspond to broadband and 11.2 million to fixed lines. During the first three months of the year Telmex invested 1,393 million pesos to improve the transport network and improve the access network, according to data from its latest quarterly report.
Other telecommunications companies, such as Totalplay and Megacable, increased the prices of their services in March in order to recover the investments made to deploy fiber optics amid the high demand for internet services that arose from the pandemic. Another of the arguments for rate changes is due to the increase in gigabytes that they add to their packages.
mega cable raised its rates twice in less than a year, arguing increases in its operating costs, such as electricity, and investments to expand its infrastructure.