The businesses of Information and Communication Technologies in Mexico managed to invoice 1.2 billion pesos in 2021, a growth of 8.2% compared to 2020. This is the highest growth recorded in sales of the ICT industry since the last year of the six-year term of Felipe Calderon (2006-2012), when billing grew 18%, according to data from the Select consultancy.
The growth of ICT industry This is largely due to the rebound effect derived from the drop in economic activity in 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. An effect that can be seen in the 16% growth corresponding to the second quarter of 2021, which represents a complete recovery of the sector compared to the 8% drop it suffered in the second quarter of 2020.
The average growth of the industry in the three years of the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador shows, however, that the sector grows at a higher average than during the administration of Enrique Pena Nieto (2012-2018) and lower than during the administration of Felipe Calderón. This is mainly due to the zero growth experienced by the ICT industry during the year 2020. If this zero growth is averaged with 3.6% in 2019 and 8.1% in 2021, the result is 3.9%, greater than the 2% per year during the Peña government and less than the 7% of the Calderón period .
The ICT business also grew at a rate higher than that of the Mexican economy, whose Gross domestic product increased 5.1% in 2021, amid an environment of uncertainty, with inflation reaching 7.36% per year; effects on people’s consumption; drop in private investment and President López Obrador’s energy counter-reform project, according to Ricardo Zermeño, CEO of Select.
The billing of business TIC represents a twentieth of Mexico’s total GDP, which reached almost 25 billion pesos in the third quarter of 2021 and represents more than a third of automotive exports, which registered a value of 2.8 billion pesos in 2021, according to information from Inegi .
Channels grow in double digits
The channels for the sale and distribution of technological products and services were the businesses that experienced the highest growth in the industry during 2021. The channels sold 209,742 million pesos, that is, they grew 13% during the entire previous year and registered quarterly growth higher than 20 percent.
It was followed by service providers, who billed 100.956 million pesos and grew 8%, and telecommunications operators, who sold 577.550 million pesos and also experienced growth of 8 percent. In the end were the manufacturers, who invoiced 323,581 million pesos, an increase of 6%, affected above all by the shortage of electronic components, mainly semiconductors or chips.
Among the technological services, the public cloud advances is the one that has registered the greatest growth in recent years. Only between 2019 and 2021, the government period of AMLOthe public cloud has recorded cumulative increases of 23.4%, while operation and support services have grown 5% and integration and consulting, just 1 percent.
Many of the industry’s challenges come from the consequences caused by covid-19 pandemic; such is the case of the shortage of components and the general increase in prices. However, the AMLO’s government It continues to be one of the biggest challenges for this sector, since technology purchases have been concentrated in a few dependencies; in addition to the fact that there is no clarity in the progress of the government’s connectivity projects, as is the case of internet for all and the Connectivity Program in Public Places 2022.
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