CFE will bring the Internet to 20 million people; will cover 90% of the national territory

Manuel Bartlett Díaz, Director General of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) announced at the February 15 morning conference, details of the “Internet for Wellbeing” program, which will have a 91.9% nationwide coverage and over 70% with 4.5G technology.

By way of introduction, the Director General gave an overview of the marginalized population of the Mexican Republic, “20 million Mexicans are subjected to secular backwardness, to severe marginalization; This means that millions of children may be forever disadvantaged compared to their contemporaries because of why they live in places where access is considered uneconomical and unprofitable,” he said. .

In Mexico more than 20 million people do not have internet access, nor to mobile phones, because they are in inaccessible populations, in remote and marginalized regions. People who do not have access to this service are isolated from the information contained on the Internet, which turns them into victims of digital marginalization.

How will the CFE implement this program?

According to the head of the Federal Electricity Commission, The Internet is a decentralized global network of computers., computers, tablets and links connected to each other. Thanks to it, photos, videos, audios, books and various information are exchanged using mobile phones, tablets or computers, with which people can communicate with each other all over the world.

“The first thing that is needed is to join them to an internet node via optical fiber or satellite connection. Fiber optics are flexible glass fibers that carry light signals inside which large amounts of information travel very long distances,” he said.

“The CFE transmission network already has optical fiber in its ground wire. This network, made up of the large towers that can be seen along the highways, is the means of transporting large volumes of electricity throughout Mexico and now, thanks to the optical fiber that it includes, it will also transport the Internet like electricity.

In figures, the CFE has installed 50,000 kilometers of optical fiber in its transmission lines and plans to install an additional 32,000 kilometers. Bartlett added that from the nearest fiber optic location “civil works, conduits, pipelines, tapings, etc. are done to bring these fiber optic connections to telecommunication towers. strategically placed and high up to maximize coverage of the target population.

Once the telecommunications towers and its radio base which delivers the 4.5G Wireless Internet Services To the population. This wireless service will reach everyone in a community who has a cell phone, tablet, or mobile broadband device that can access the Internet, since the signal travels across the radio spectrum, i.e. in the air.

The government left this huge project in the hands of the CFE because of its management of the major transmission and “conduction infrastructures, as well as its technical, technological and human capacity”.

It should be mentioned that they work with Arbor Reds, which currently has a concession to cover the connectivity of more than 90% of the population of Mexico, which includes a social percentage. “Altán had 2,675 towers in December 2018, to date it has deployed 4,771 additional towers, reaching 7,446. And thanks to those built by CFE, at the end of the semester there will be 12,601, which will cover 118 millions of people. Mexicans,” he explained.

Gazebo Redes the internet provider company which went bankrupt and was acquired by the government to provide Internet service in all cities of Oaxaca and the rest of the Mexican Republic. Altán Redes’ objective is to guarantee the right of access to information and communication technologies, including broadband and the Internet. The internet points that will be opened will be public squares, schools, hospitals and more collective sites.