MEXICO, Julio. 17.- Los servicios de telecomunicación en México ocupan los últimos lugares en todas las listas de medición de servicio y calidad realizadas para los 30 países que conforman la OCDE. Esto, le da otra arma a la Comisión Federal de Competencia (CFC) en su intención por establecer regulación asimétrica a Teléfonos de México (BMV: TELMEX) y América Móvil (BMV: AMX), señala IXE Casa de Bolsa basado en un estudio reciente de OCDE.

Dentro del mencionado estudio, la OCDE señala que los precios de las comunicaciones (en el mundo) continúan cayendo y los usuarios están recibiendo mejores servicios a un mejor precio. Por otro lado, destaca el crecimiento de servicios o paquetes con tarifas fijas para servicios de voz y datos.

Asimismo, la fuerte baja que han experimentado los precios de los servicios de voz ha generado ahorros a los consumidores, los cuales están siendo destinados hacia nuevos servicios de telecomunicaciones, principalmente la banda ancha.

El resultado de esta transferencia de recursos de un servicio a otro ha ayudado a las empresas de telefonía fija ha soportar el descenso en los ingresos de los servicios de voz, lo que se ha logrado a través del empaquetamiento de la banda ancha con servicios de voz y en algunos casos con señales de televisión formando lo que se conoce como “triple play”.

México en los últimos lugares del ranking. La OCDE presenta diversas tablas con el monto que gastan los diferentes tipos de consumidores en los servicios de telecomunicaciones.

Entre las tablas que se publican donde el primer lugar corresponde al más barato, la OCDE realiza un ajuste con el método de “Poder por Paridad de Compra” (PPP del inglés Purchasing Power Parity) para poder realizar una justa comparación entre los diferentes países, y es con ésta metodología con la cual México se ubica entre los lugares 24 y 28 de un total de 30 países utilizados para dicho estudio.

Arma que podría utilizar la CFC. Desde hace varios años, la Comisión Federal de Competencia (CFC) ha buscado por diferentes instancias jurídicas establecer una regulación asimétrica a TELMEX y declararla empresa con poder dominante; dice IXE.

Sin embargo, agrega, sus esfuerzos han sido infructuosos. Recientemente, el presidente de este organismo (CFC) ha mencionado que buscará una mayor competencia en el sector de telecomunicaciones, por lo que IXE cree que podría utilizar el informe de la OCDE para forzar a las empresas del grupo Slim; TELMEX y AMX, para que ofrezcan a sus competidores y consumidores mejores tarifas y condiciones.

Telecoms advances throw up new challenges for operators, says OECD

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12/07/2007 – Telecommunications investment continues to rise and consumers are generally paying less for more and better services across the OECD area but technology developments are presenting new challenges to telecoms operators, according to a new OECD report.
The OECD Communications Outlook 2007 reports that access to broadband high-speed Internet across OECD countries continues to rise, with over 60% of the OECD area’s 256 million Internet subscribers having a broadband connection at the end of 2005. This offers an additional revenue stream for telecoms operators to make up for their declining revenues from voice communications, which still make up the bulk of their revenue.
Broadband remains one of the main growth areas for telecoms firms and one of their key challenges, looking ahead, will be to decide how much and how soon they should invest in next-generation networks, such as fibre-optics, rather than continue their investments in traditional copper networks.
Much more data can be delivered more quickly over fibre than over other broadband networks such as cable or DSL. This is important because emerging applications and services such as high definition television on demand require more bandwidth than current networks can provide. Looking ahead, the OECD expects consumer and business demand for fibre to rise.
Several operators have already made the decision to move quickly to fibre and customers in these countries have access to the best services at the lowest prices. Japanese fibre subscribers, for example, can download at 100 Mbits per second – ten times faster than the OECD average. Additionally, Japan’s price per Mbit/s is the lowest in the OECD at USD 0.22 per month. Japanese fibre subscribers can also upload at the same speed they can download which is not possible with ADSL and most cable subscriptions.
Questions remain about who should pay for installing new fibre networks and who should own them. For example, there is a growing trend for local municipalities themselves to build the network and then require their local network operator to offer competitors access to the network under equal terms.
There is no one size-fits-all solution to the challenge, according to the OECD. Those countries that have started stimulating fibre development have each taken a different approach. But governments, industry and local authorities need to work together to agree how best to upgrade their telecommunications networks.

Among other issues analysed in the OECD Communications Outlook 2007 is a distinct shift in the telecoms industry away from paying for voice to paying for data.
This is already affecting the core businesses of telecommunications operators. Voice continues to be the key driver in OECD telecommunications markets, worth over USD 1 trillion in 2005, but new technologies such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) are exerting strong downward pressures on prices for voice services and are expected to continue to do so.
Mobile services are also increasingly important in OECD markets, with mobile’s percentage of total revenue tripling to 39% between 1995 and 2005.
The report analyses telecommunications developments in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the so-called BRICS. They are among the world’s fast-growing Information Communications Technology (ICT) markets and their impact is increasingly spilling over into OECD markets. Between 2000 and 2005, ICT spending in the BRICS economies increased by more than 19% a year from USD 114 billion to USD 277 billion, while worldwide ICT spending by just 5.6% a year and OECD country spending by only 4.2% a year.
The Communications Outlook 2007 is available to journalists from the OECD’s Media Division (tel.+ 33 1 45 24 97 00) or through the password-protected website. The report can be purchased in paper or electronic form through the OECD’s Online Bookshop. Subscribers and readers at subscribing institutions can access the online version via SourceOECD.
For further information, journalists are invited to contact Dimitri Ypsilanti (tel. + 33 1 45 24 94 42) or Taylor Reynolds (tel. + 33 1 45 24 93 84) of the OECD’s Information and Communications Policy Division.