▲ An event was held at the Casa Miguel Alemán of the Los Pinos Cultural Complex to commemorate the International Day of Indigenous Peoples. There, the goal of working together for their rights was reinforced so as not to disintegrate anyone.Photo the day
Dora Villanueva
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, August 10, 2022, p. 4
One in five indigenous people in Mexico do not have access to any mobile service technology, this includes the one deployed three decades ago in some regions of the country, reports the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT).
The organization shows that 2 million 395 thousand 896 people who identify themselves as indigenous do not have mobile service coverage; this includes the 2G technology of the last century, pioneered in the 1990s.
The IFT presented a report on the status of mobile telecommunications coverage in the 66 original communities of Mexico. There are some in which adding 2G, 3G and 4G technology, the agency reports 100 percent service.
There are 11 indigenous communities, one out of every six, in which half coverage is not reached in their territories – even counting technologies that date back three decades – exhibits the regulator.
The native peoples with less than half coverage are the Lacandón, 16 percent; southern Tepehuano, 20 percent; tojolabal, 24 percent; chuj, 32 percent; Ch’ol, 33 percent; serious, 35 percent; pima, 39 percent; Tlapaneco and Q’ajnob’al, both 47 percent; Tseltal, 48 percent, and Northern Tepehuano, 49 percent. The IFT highlighted that as of the fourth quarter of 2021, 75 percent of the localities with presence of indigenous population
They have mobile service coverage with 3G technology and 70 percent with 4G.
At the same time, he stressed that, on average, 66.11 percent of the indigenous population according to household criteria estimated by the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples have a cell phone.
