Mexico’s telecommunications landscape is approaching a regulatory cliff. With just 71 days remaining until a June 30 deadline, the Comisión Reguladora de Telecomunicaciones (CRT) has launched an aggressive national campaign to compel citizens to register their mobile lines. The initiative, which spans social media, government platforms, and public transit, aims to stave off a massive service disruption that would restrict unregistered phones to emergency calls only.
The scale of the inertia is significant. Of the 161 million mobile lines currently in operation across the country, only 30.2 million—roughly 18.7 percent—have been successfully linked to the national registry. More concerning for officials is the slowing momentum; the daily average of validated lines has dropped since the policy was first implemented in January. This deceleration suggests that the initial wave of early adopters has passed, leaving a vast, unresponsive majority.
For telecommunications providers, the stakes are both logistical and existential. A failure to bridge this registration gap by mid-summer would result in a massive loss of active customers, as millions of lines are rendered functionally useless for standard communication. By deploying "official time" on state and commercial media, the CRT is attempting to transform a bureaucratic requirement into a public priority before the window for compliance snaps shut.
With reporting from *Expansión MX*.
Source · Expansión MX
