Mass media in Mexico
Mass media in Mexico, including telecommunications and digital media, are regulated primarily by the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, SCT) and the autonomous Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT), which replaced the former Federal Commission of Telecommunications (Cofetel) in 2013. Mexico's telecommunications market is among the largest in Latin America and underwent significant liberalization in the 1990s following the privatization of the state-owned monopoly Teléfonos de México (Telmex), acquired by Carlos Slim's América Móvil group in 1990.