Mexican fixed line incumbent Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex) has reportedly failed in its legal challenge aimed at forcing the government to award it a concession for the provision of pay-TV services. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, which cites El Universal columnist Maricarmen Cortes, an appeals court has ruled that the Secretario de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) did hold the authority to reject Telmex’s request for a pay-TV licence. This latest decision, it is understood, cannot be appealed, although the report claims that it remains unclear as to whether Mexico’s Supreme Court will take up a separate case which seeks to examine whether the SCT made mistakes in the way in which it denied the concession.