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Telcel Granted Renaut Extension
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April 14, 2010
Mexico City – Telcel has been granted an extension so that services to users who did not register their phones with the Mexican National Registry of Mobile Phone Users (Renaut) will not be suspended. Telcel is urging its clients to register.
Telcel, which controls more than 70 percent of Mexico’s cell phone market, filed and was granted an injunction for protection, or amparo, against the initiative.
The phone carrier said in a press release on Tuesday that “the established deadline for the register was insufficient due to the extensive database of our current clients.” It also said that ever since the process began 11 months ago, Telcel registered an average of 100,000 customers per day.
Nearly 25 million cell phones were not registered by Saturday’s deadline, the federal government says.
Separately, Luis Wertman Zaslav, president of the Citizen Council to Public Security and Justice of Mexico City, said that so far Renaut is merely a well-intended mechanism because it lacks regulations and a method to validate the data, consequently, its implementation as an effective tool against crime has been delayed.
Council director Carlos Orvañanos Rea said that the abstention of millions of people to register, the use of fake CURP numbers or the usurpation of public officials’ CURP numbers, undetected by the system, would imply a delay in registrations which, in the worst-case scenario, could last up to two years before a safe and reliable system is available.
Achieving Renaut’s fundamental objective, which is to combat criminal activity, will not become a reality in the short run, Orvañanos said.
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