Red Compartida

Red Compartida is developed by ALTÁN Redes, an emerging private Mexican company owned by the consortium—of the same name—that won the domestic and international public tender process.

América Móvil, the company owned by Carlos Slim, the world's richest person between 2010 and 2013,[1] has long held a monopoly in the telecommunications marketplace in Mexico.

On March 30, 2017, ALTÁN Networks was formally established as the operator of Red Compartida thus completing the administrative process in relation to the mandate awarded through the public tender in November 2016, and the signing of the Public-Private Partnership in January 2017.

[9] On March 15, 2018, one year and four months after ALTÁN was granted the project, Red Compartida was authorized to start commercial operations after reaching its first coverage milestone: 30 percent of the total population and 25% of the Pueblos Mágicos.

On March 21, 2018, President Enrique Peña Nieto initiated the first stage of Red Compartida, 10 days before the deadline in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract.

She explained that, in the past, “European countries and China were almost solely the recipients of this award.”[11] On the other hand, the giant US provider AT&T, which has in recent years invested 4.4 billion dollars in Mexico, was reported to be “particularly discomfited” with the project, especially since as an existing operator, they would be barred from taking part.

[12] The Mexican Government requires that any bidder planning to construct the Red Compartida Network demonstrate that they have no ties whatever to any mobile service provider already operating in Mexico.