La lucha por las telecomunicaciones en México II: la integración al mundo postindustrial

Abstract

During the last decade, telecommunications and television have been slowly changing in Mexico. Historically, a few companies have monopolized both industries. Televisa controlled the radio and television industries and Grupo Carso the telecommunication sector. These companies, controlled by Emilio Azcarraga Jean and Carlos Slim, respectively, gain a lot of political and economic control in Mexico during the last decades. Throughout many years, these capitalists lived in peace. Nevertheless, changes in the economic environment, such as the financial globalization and the digital convergence, confronted these companies. This confrontation has been named as the Telecommunications’ War. This war ended—apparently—with the elaboration of a new federal law that regulates the sector.

Within the last years I have been analyzing these political and economic conjunctures. In recent days was published an article where I analyze the Telecommunication’s War. The article is named “The Struggle for Telecommunications in Mexico II: Towards the Integration to a Post-Industrial World” and was published in the journal Análisis Plural.