MEXICO City (Reuters) - Telmex gives rivals disservice when they access the telephone network of the company, a key question keep fixed line giant win a TV license, a Government Minister, said Wednesday.
Ministry of communications of the Mexico rejected last week, a Telmex bid to enter the market of national television, saying that the giant telephone company controlled by Carlos Slim does not requests for fair play with competitors meet.
Rival phone claim Telmex, which provides 70% of the Mexico residential telephone lines, abandoned the appeals of their clients and otherwise given substandard service, said Communications and Transport Minister Dionisio Perez-Jacome.
"It y had signs of interrupted telephone traffic", he told local radio, noting that investigations are underway and that Telmex has not always quickly responded to regulatory agencies.
The Mexico competition authority has slapped a $ 1 billion fine Slim mobile phone giant America Movil, in April for market abuse and still has his empire in its sights.
The Federal Competition Commission condemned a peso 91.5 million ($7.8 million) fine Telmex Wednesday to deny JWG, a unit of Telefonica SA the Spain, the right to interconnect its lines in seven months between 2007 and 2008.
Telmex has promised to challenge the decision of TV of the Department, in the Court while he tries to convince the Department of communications that it has complied with key conditions.
Slim may be long, appeal and the result is far from certain.
Perez Jacome said that Telmex measured against the requirements of the agreement of Convergence - a decree of 5 years that define the benchmarks, that the company must meet before it can penetrate into the television sector.
Proposed Convergence agreement telephone services "efficient operation of interconnection and interoperability based on non-discriminatory rates" before Telmex would get a green light to offer television.
"I return to the theme of the interconnection of quality and quality services offering", said Perez Jacome. "There are many complaints existing as (Telmex) did not comply with these points."
Telmex may request a pay television licence, once that it has respected the prescribed manner, said Perez Jacome.
Telmex shares sank earlier this week that investors digest the implications of the decision that will keep the company to enter the market "triple play" which would bundle phone, television and Internet services.
The stock was decreased by 1.6% to 10.18 pesos on the Mexican Exchange Wednesday and fell by 3.1% to $17.31 in New York.
(Reported by Luis Rojas Mena and Patrick Rucker; editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Andre Grenon)
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