Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the new Telecommunications Commission will tighten controls on prepaid SIM sales by requiring official identification at purchase.
- Mobile operators will be obliged to apply controlled cellular signal blocking in designated detention centers to curb illicit calls.
- Telecom companies will retain purchaser records and may provide them to authorities only upon a judge’s order, according to the announcement.
- Sheinbaum said anonymous SIM availability enables criminal groups to rotate multiple chips for extortion schemes, including from prisons.
- The measures are established in the recently approved telecommunications law, and operational details and timelines will be defined during the rollout.