Overview
- Influencer Gabriel Montiel asked on Tuesday about using a foreign line to avoid linking his number to a CURP, Mexico’s national ID code, and businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego urged followers not to register and to use international eSIM plans.
- Regulators said this week that 27.5 million lines are registered out of roughly 142 million active lines, which would require about 1.38 million registrations per day to reach the June 30 deadline.
- Starting July 1, providers must suspend unlinked numbers, which will only connect to emergency and citizen hotlines and the carrier’s service line until users complete the ID link.
- For customers, suspended postpaid lines can still accrue bills until contracts end, while prepaid numbers can lapse and be reassigned after about 90 days without balance top-ups.
- Officials say records stay with each carrier and offer an online portal and formal unlink options, yet surveys and past breaches cited by watchdogs keep privacy worries high, and Montiel said Wednesday he was contacted “from above,” intensifying concern.