Overview
- Enacom published Resolution 734/2026 in the Boletín Oficial on Thursday formalizing a procedure that lets provinces that opt in request the inactivation of devices activated inside provincial penitentiaries.
- The rule requires carriers to block a device's IMEI, the SIM IMSI and the associated telephone line only after an express request routed through the national Ministry of Security rather than direct provincial orders.
- The measure mandates technical safeguards so blocks are confined to prison perimeters and obliges carriers to record and preserve detailed logs of every intervention for traceability and access by authorities or users.
- The extension follows a formal technical request from Mendoza, which has begun a public tender for integrated platforms for localization, selective inhibition and georeferencing to operationalize the system locally.
- The change builds on earlier federal controls and recent judicial actions against inmates using phones to coordinate crime and its rollout will hinge on provincial adhesion, carriers adapting localization tools and coordination with security and judicial bodies.