Overview
- The CRT confirmed there will be no new extension for numbers ending in 0, making August 15 the final deadline for those prepaid lines to be linked to a CURP or RFC.
- Authorities say roughly 71 million lines have been linked so far while government and agency data show about 6.5 million of the roughly 14 million lines ending in 0 remained unlinked and at immediate risk before the deadline.
- Telecom companies will begin suspending calls, text and mobile data for unlinked prepaid lines within a 72-hour window after the deadline while suspended numbers will still receive emergency calls and official alerts and can be reactivated once linked.
- What happens to suspended numbers after reactivation is unclear because CRT did not set a uniform recycling or retention period, and operators report different reuse timelines ranging from about 180 to 365 days.
- Academics, industry groups and rights advocates warn of constitutional and privacy risks, saying the rule may limit access to information and that data-protection gaps and uneven operator practices could expose users to new vulnerabilities.