Mexico lost the rights to the satellite orbit 109.2 degrees west, after the only group that participated in the auction could ensure that the satellite would have to fill this position on March 5 2008, deadline set by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for the country to retain the satellite orbit. The Federal Telecommunications Commission (Cofetel ) reported that the company QuetzSat composed of SES Americom and MEDCOM withdrew from participating in the award and the process was declared void.
Canada will retain the position, while Mexico will be formed at the end of a long line of applicants from one orbit to provide broadband satellite services. The consequences for the country will be assessed in terms of reduction in its sovereignty, economic, technological backwardness and impairment in Latin American leadership in the provision of satellite services.
The loss of the satellite orbit 109.2 degrees west, which covers the entire American continent and Hawaii, also means stop offering telecommunications services with broadband local content, with effects that means for social programs and promoting more orderly for the integration of telecommunications networks.
Moreover, the fact that the tender had been declared void the federal government will mean a loss of about $ 50 000 for an operation that should have been done with the ITU , regardless of the orbit itself represents a business the order of 10.5 MDD. Among
services considering the orbit 109.2, highlight the Direct to Home (DTH, for its acronym in English), HDTV, intracompany private communication, transportation service for telecommunications network operators and fixed satellite services in high density.
"QuetzSat left the competition because they have no availability of Ka-band satellite and Mexico loses the ability to maintain orbit, officials said that Cofetel also announced that the agency will make a census and projected capacity available satellite to determine the needs of the country and the region to accelerate the process of obtaining a new orbit.
QuetzSat was the only participant in the bidding, because all other stakeholders felt that the federal government established a minimum amount of reference very high, so do not auctioned. The price was 13.5 million dollars (mdd), but the government was forced to drop to 10.5 million dollars to build the tender and that the country must keep its orbit.
telecommunications authorities attempted to tender this position twice, and there was no satellite. The first call for tenders of the orbit was 109.2 degrees west in 2006, once the Cofetel launched the call on November 20, 2005.
Since that time QuetzSat be abandoned because it could not acquire the satellite. Still, the Mexican government felt it could launch a second call. Again, the company warned that it could not guarantee the availability of a Ka-band satellite.
To save the orbit, the authorities tried to convince other companies like PanAmSat , operating in Mexico with Pegasus group, to move one of its satellites to the 109.2, but the company not accepted because the government demanded the payment of a fee.
Mexico currently has four satellite orbits, of those, three are licensed to SatMex and the other QuetzSat.
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