Overview
- The Comisión Reguladora de Telecomunicaciones (CRT) has said there will be no extension to the June 30, 2026 deadline and warned that lines not linked to a CURP or RFC will be suspended for calls, SMS and mobile data after July 1 while emergency services remain available.
- By late May roughly one third of Mexico’s estimated 144–161 million mobile lines had been registered, leaving tens of millions unlinked and forcing operators to process registrations at an unsustainable daily rate to meet the legal cutoff.
- Industry leaders including Carlos Slim and the GSMA have urged regulators to reconsider the timetable, citing technical failures, public distrust and the particular difficulty of validating prepaid users who make up about 80% of lines.
- Investigations in Mexico City found vendors selling SIMs already registered to other identities for about 200 pesos, showing how informal markets and reported biometric/AI spoofing gaps can let third parties bypass the system.
- Major carriers forecast a mass depuración that will disconnect inactive or low‑use SIMs, a move that could shrink headline line counts, raise average revenue per user and force closer scrutiny of operators such as OMVs while reviving privacy concerns tied to past national registries.