The Mexican businessman José Aguirre Camps, Who orders the signature StarGroup, Assured his telecommunications brand StarLink will not be put up for sale to foreign companies, nor to Elon Musk, So that legal disputes against SpaceX they will be maintained until the last court rulings.
“We filed a 2:00 stop, we are calm and confident that this will protect us and restore our rights. We will die on the line,” Aguirre said in an interview with MILLENNIUM.
According to the information provided, at first, the legal representatives of Elon Musk they had contact with Aguirre Camps to buy the brand. However, StarGroup in this period he mentioned that the conditions for the sale did not exist, as it represented an illegal act of acquisition.
StarGroup is a Mexican telecommunications company and currently owns the brands StarGo, StarLine, StarTv, StarKa, StarGroup i StarLink. Its offer is focused on satellite, terrestrial and mobile internet services.
“We don’t have the StarLink brand registered to see who seems to have it or so that we can sell it later. No, how will we sell it ?, with it our customers know us,” the entrepreneur emphasized.
Aguirre mention that the allegations to strip him of the trademark badge are also based on an alleged record he made of StarLink in a personal capacity, when they argue that the original domain is SpaceX.
“First you go and register the brand, then you do the company. They accuse me of registering the selection in my name and the company uses it, this has no support. So there would be half of the Mexican companies, exposed to that, “Aguirre said.
In 2018, Elon Musk Corporation Exploration Technologies Corporation, Better known as SpaceX, Sued the Mexican Institute of Intellectual Property (IMPI) for the expiration and invalidity of the Mexican trademark.
The complaint was denied by the Mexican regulatory body in pointing out that StarGroup, In conjunction with all its commercial products, retain all permits to exploit the brand StarLink, In addition to obtaining the registration of operation since 2015 and its functionality from that same year.
After the support of the SERVANT, The signature of the billionaire Elon Musk, SpaceX, filed a lawsuit before the Specialized Intellectual Property Chamber of the Federal Court of Administrative Justice (TFJA), a body that accepted the foreign company’s complaint.
“Our rights were violated, it was an injustice what the Court of Administrative Justice did. The law does not apply because of the size of the companies, because of how powerful their owners can be or the amount of money they have. “The law is applied to give the right to those who have it, so the law will protect us,” said Aguirre.
Downward model
StarGroup currently offers restricted television and audio services (STAR), which from 2016 to 2019 remained the second most relevant in terms of revenue from the entire sector, according to a study by the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (Ifetel).
In terms of the number of users, the Ifetel study identified a growing trend between 2013 and the first quarter of 2017; however, in the first three months of 2018 these services observed a downward trend, with a higher disconnection rate than that of attracting new users.
With this, the regulatory body predicts that the number of users of this type of service will not increase or even a decrease is estimated, from 19 million accesses at the end of 2020 to 18.4 million subscriptions by 2024.