Mexican Agency Seeks Interested Parties For Backbone Network Project

Antonio Casares Carrillo is a Partner and Lilia Euridice Palma Salas and Jorge Aviles-Cerezo are Associates in the Mexico City office.

Telecomm, a Mexican government agency, issued an international Request for Expression of Interest (RFEI) on May 12, 2017, for parties seeking to participate in the Backbone Network Project (Red Troncal).

Background

Telecomm is a governmental entity reporting to Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT). Telecomm has been appointed by the recent Constitutional Reform and the new Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law to build a robust national fiber-optic backbone network by 1) leveraging on existing infrastructure from Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), the country's electric utility organization, 2) having access to indefeasible rights of use to a pair of dark fiber-optic strands along the CFE's fiber-optic network and 3) having access to use related passive infrastructure of CFE.