Telefonos de Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. is to cease operations of 60,000 public telephone booths across the country. Mexican telecoms regulator Cofetel cites the high operating and maintenance costs that the business generates as the main reason for stopping the operation of the phone booths. The proposed divestment of booths will also serve to uninstall points of double coverage.

Telmex is required by local regulators to provide five telephone booths per 1,000 inhabitants, an obligation that is not required of other telecom companies operating in Mexico. The company first tried to pare down its 654,000 existing telephone booths to 68,000 in 2010.