This law concentrates on the deregulation of the digital spectrum to be assigned to the two national television networks in the country: Televisa and TV Azteca.
This law concedes to these two private television networks, free of monetary costs, the digital frequency spectrum, a public good belonging to the Government of Mexico.
Another key supporter of this law was Diego Fernández de Cevallos,[1] which has previously been criticized for his defense of private parties against the government while acting as a congressperson.
Fernández de Cevallos directed harsh criticism towards Javier Corral[2] who opposed the law due to his personal convictions against the generalized opinion of his party.
The appearance of Jorge Arredondo Martínez, and engineer and president of the Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones declared after the incisive questioning by Emilio Gamboa Patrón, senator from the PRI, whether the law constituted an advance: It does not assure the State's role of regulating the efficient use of the radio electric spectrum; it does not regulate spectrum and networks, under the same model, to allow the growing diversity of new converging services; it causes an inadequate administration of the spectrum that jeopardizes the convergence, because it makes difficult the introduction of new services, technologies and servicesIn June, 2007, the Supreme Court struck down several key clauses of the law.