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ARTICLE · 11 AUGUST 2014

Must Carry-Must Offer… Most Clarity

In the last months, Mexico seems to be reinventing itself and has been living several changes in its regulations and institutions.

MexicoIntellectual Property

In the last months, Mexico seems to be reinventing itself and has been living several changes in its regulations and institutions. One of the most important and recent, is the one related to telecommunications.

What for some people started as the need and effort of balancing as possible the economic competence between the big and the small players and avoid monopolies in the industry, it has come across as a very complex scenario on how and when is this objective going to be achieved in addition to a thousand special features.

For starters our country has decided to follow the American principle of "must carry- must offer" which refers to the fact that the content of the programs of broadcast' networks must be retransmitted by the cable television service providers and at the same time, broadcast' networks must make their programs available for the cable television providers. In general, must carry-must offer rules create an interesting rights and obligations to

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