IFT workers will deliver certificates showing the completion of their projects.

Jessika Becerra

La Jornada Newspaper, Sunday, July 13, 2025, p. 15

Employees of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) are finalizing their projects to comply with their respective delivery orders, given that the organization will be dissolved by the government decree last December, reported a source from the organization who asked not to be named.

For now, all officials are working on closing out their projects to leave everything in order with their respective delivery certificates , he commented in a query by this newspaper.

He emphasized that, according to the ninth transitory article of the new Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law, all workers must be compensated and will be terminated upon the dissolution of the IFT, which will occur when the five commissioners of the new Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (CRT) are appointed.

"I believe, then, that the new commissioners will be determined to create a new structure and invite many of the current employees to collaborate, given their extensive experience in the field ," the source said.

The IFT is one of the seven agencies that will disappear due to the publication of December 20, 2024, which reforms, adds, and repeals various provisions of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, regarding organizational simplification.

Guidelines to be carried out

According to the IFT's 2025 annual work program, this year the agency will issue guidelines for authorized concessionaires in emergency or disaster situations, with the goal of preventing potential damage to telecommunications network infrastructure in the event of an emergency.

In turn, the agency will issue guidelines to ensure the security of voice communications over public telecommunications networks.

These measures aim to mitigate the misuse of voice service numbering resources.

The plan also states that by 2025, the IFT's data governance framework will be completed for the use, integrity, and security of the information it holds, both in institutional systems and databases.

Since 2013, the IFT has operated as an autonomous body established as part of a constitutional reform in the areas of telecommunications and broadcasting.

The functions it had of regulating and supervising the use, exploitation, and operation of the radio spectrum, telecommunications, and broadcasting networks and services in the country will be transferred to the new Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency.

Other functions related to operating permits will be transferred to the new National Antimonopoly Commission, which will be a public body decentralized under the Ministry of Economy and will have legal personality and its own assets, as well as management autonomy.