Since 2013 Mexico’s ICT sector has positioned itself for new investment opportunities on the back of constitutional reforms that sought to increase competition and reduce monopolistic behaviour in the market, especially when it came to telecommuications. At the beginning of the decade América Móvil, owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, dominated mobile telecoms, an...
Articles & Analysis | Mexico forges ahead with its strategy to deliver ICT services to last-mile users from The Report: Mexico 2019
Articles & Analysis | Latin America's start-up ecosystem continues to gain visibility worldwide from The Report: Mexico 2019
As tech business grows more expensive in California’s Silicon Valley, some investors are looking to alternative markets for lower costs and ventures that promise growth. The tech ecosystems in Berlin and Barcelona are among the locations absorbing investment, while in Latin America Mexico City is competing for prominence among the region’s tech cities. Mexico City’s proximity...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Desmond Mullarkey, President, SAP México: Interview from The Report: Mexico 2019
To what extent are local conditions suitable to ensure Mexico’s ICT sector is globally competitive?
Despite significant progress in recent years, Mexico’s ICT sector faces certain challenges. While the 2013 reforms opened the...
In 2018 Mexico’s economy ranked second in Latin America and 15th in the world in terms of GDP, which totalled $1.22trn, according to the World Bank. In 2019 the newly elected President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pushed ahead with efforts to meet his pledge to tackle corruption and implement austerity measures within the government, to reduce costs and curb excessive expenditures.
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