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< | It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | Who Will Control the Mexican Media Now? | | | Context of the Telecommunications Industry in Mexico | |
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< | Monopolies dominate the Mexican economy, and the telecommunication sector is no exception of this problem. The telephony and internet access markets are dominated by two companies owned by Mr. Carlos Slim: Telmex and Telcel. Mr. Slim’s companies have market shares of 80%, 70% and 74% of the fixed line, mobile and internet access markets respectively (1). Besides that, Mr. Slim has constantly expressed his desire to own a TV channel; however, his companies are expressly forbidden to do so in Mexico. Despite not being authorized to provide TV services, Mr. Slim owns an online “TV Channel” called “Uno TV”. “Uno TV” has its own news program and provides free of charge daily news (via a SMS) to all of Telcel’s subscribers. Telmex also entered into an alliance with MVS Multivisión (a cable, radio and internet provider) to distribute satellite TV. | >
> | Monopolies dominate the Mexican economy, and the telecommunication sector is no exception of this problem. The telephony and internet access markets are dominated by two companies owned by Mr. Carlos Slim: Telmex and Telcel. Mr. Slim’s companies have market shares of 80%, 70% and 74% of the fixed line, mobile and internet access markets respectively.
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Besides that, Mr. Slim has constantly expressed his desire to own a TV channel; however, his companies are expressly forbidden to do so in Mexico. Despite not being authorized to provide TV services, Mr. Slim owns an online “TV Channel” called “Uno TV”. “Uno TV” has its own news program and provides free of charge daily news (via a SMS) to all of Telcel’s subscribers. Telmex also entered into an alliance with MVS Multivisión (a cable, radio and internet provider) to distribute satellite TV. | | | On the other hand, there are two dominant mass media conglomerates: Televisa and TV Azteca. Televisa is the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish speaking world(2). By the end of 2010 it had 70.5% of the average number of TV spectators in Mexico during prime time (3), and it had direct participation in cable and satellite TV, radio, magazines, telecommunication networks and internet, among others. The other company, and Televisa’s former rival, TV Azteca, by the end of 2010 absorbed 24.9% of the prime time audience (4) and belonged to the same corporate group as Iusacell, the third mobile provider in Mexico. TV Azteca’s group also participates in the musical industry, and is a provider of cable TV, telephony and broadband internet. Those numbers acquire more relevance if one considers that according to a national survey, 95.5% of the Mexicans are informed of what happens through television (5). | | | (4)Idem.
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It's impossible to disagree with any of this. You have said, from start to finish, what every educated Mexican knows. The problem is that you have not said anything more. You have articulated clearly one central part of the anatomy of contemporary Mexico. But then you say other people had better think about and respond to the picture you, and they, can all paint blindfolded. This is what everybody knows. An entire society lies bleeding, waiting for you to say what comes next.
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