translated from Spanish: “Expanding Internet coverage is not only cablecitos and fiber optics”: Carlos Slim

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Mexico.-The honorary chairman of Grupo Carso, Carlos Slim, responded to President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, after the president announced the creation of a state-owned internet company.
Participating in the 25TH plenary meeting of the Fundación Círculo de Montevideo, in Mexico City, the honorary president of Grupo Carso, Carlos Slim, said as a response to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which requires a transmission network Advanced networks that allow to increase internet coverage in the country, and not only need cables and fiber optics.
“Advanced communication networks of the latest generation and very high population and territorial penetration must be provided that offer connectivity to the whole country and at least in the remote places to the education and health centers, that is fundamental and that is not necessarily It has to be with cablecitos and fiber optic as such, it can be via satellite, there must be such coverage, because these networks are the nervous system of the new civilization, “said the engineer during his participation in the plenary
The response of the employer responded to what was said last weekend by López Obrador in Nayarit, where he pointed out that if the fiber-optic bidding of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is not successful, the federal government would intervene to bring the internet to the Faraway sites in Mexico.
Likewise, the president accused the telephony companies for not bringing the service of cellular and internet to the remote villages, because they are not profitable. “Nor going up to the hills finds one the signal, because they seek nothing more the business, because in the country only 20% of the users have access to the Internet and a 80% does not have it”.
At another time, Slim said that in the absence of Governments ‘ ability to plan long-term, which generates disorientation in the economy, “society is fed up with spending many years without anything happening.”
 
Source: Chronicle
 

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