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Accounting Policies (Tables)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Material Accounting Policies  
Schedule of interests in direct and indirect subsidiaries

At December 31, 2025 and 2024, the main direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company were as follows:

Company’s

Ownership

  ​ ​ ​

Interest (1)

Subsidiaries

2025

2024

Telecom (2):

Corporativo Vasco de Quiroga, S.A. de C.V. (“CVQ”) and subsidiaries (3)

 

100

%  

100

%

Empresas Cablevisión, S.A.B. de C.V. and subsidiaries (collectively, “Empresas Cablevisión”) (3)

 

51.5

%  

51.5

%

Cablestar, S.A. de C.V. and subsidiaries (collectively, “Bestel”) (3)

 

66.4

%  

66.4

%

Cablemás and subsidiaries (collectively, “Cablemás”) (3)

 

100

%  

100

%

Televisión Internacional, S.A. de C.V. and subsidiaries (collectively, “TVI”) (3)

 

100

%  

100

%

Sky DTH, S.A. de C.V. (“Sky DTH”) (3) (4)

 

100

%  

100

%

Innova Holdings, S. de R.L. de C.V. (“Innova Holdings”) (3) (4)

 

100

%  

100

%

Innova, S. de R.L. de C.V. (“Innova”) and subsidiaries (collectively, “Sky”) (3) (4)

 

100

%  

100

%

Corporate Entities:

Grupo Telesistema, S.A. de C.V. (“Grupo Telesistema”) and subsidiaries (5)

 

100

%  

100

%

Multimedia Telecom, S.A. de C.V. (“Multimedia Telecom”) (5)

 

100

%  

100

%

(1)Percentage of equity interest directly or indirectly held by the Company as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.
(2)See Note 26 for a description of the Group’s segment reporting.
(3)CVQ is a direct subsidiary of the Company and the parent company of Empresas Cablevisión, Bestel, Cablemás, TVI, Sky DTH, Innova Holdings, and Sky. Cablestar, S.A. de C.V. is an indirect majority-owned subsidiary of Empresas Cablevisión.
(4)Innova is an indirect subsidiary of the Company, CVQ and Sky DTH, and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Innova Holdings. Sky is a satellite television provider in Mexico, Central America and the Dominican Republic. Through May 2024, the Company held a 58.7% interest in Innova Holdings and Innova. In June 2024, the Company acquired the remaining 41.3% non-controlling interest in these companies held by AT&T, by which the Company became an indirect owner of 100% of the capital stock of Innova Holdings and Innova (see Notes 3 and 19).
(5)Grupo Telesistema is a direct subsidiary of the Company and the parent company of Multimedia Telecom. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, Grupo Telesistema and Multimedia Telecom, together with the Company, owned most of the Group’s corporate assets, including the Group’s aggregate investment in common and preferred shares of TelevisaUnivision (see Notes 3, 10 and 26).
Schedule of expiration dates of the Group's concessions and permits

At December 31, 2025, the expiration dates of the Group’s concessions and permits were as follows:

Operations

  ​ ​ ​

Expiration Dates

Telecom:

Telecommunications concessions and permits

Various from 2026 to 2059

Corporate assets:

Broadcasting concessions (1)

In 2042 and 2052

(1)Broadcasting concessions include 23 concessions for the use of spectrum that comprise the Group’s 225 TV stations for the signals of TelevisaUnivision, for a term of 20 years, starting in January 2022 and ending in January 2042, and six concessions to provide digital broadcasting television services on such TV stations, for a term of 30 years, starting in January 2022 and ending in January 2052. In 2018, the Group paid an aggregate amount of Ps.5,753,349 in cash for the broadcasting concessions for the use of spectrum and recognized this payment as an intangible asset in its consolidated statement of financial position. This amount is being amortized over a period of 20 years beginning on January 1, 2022, by using the straight-line method (see Notes 13, 20 and 26).
Schedule of property, plant and equipment, estimated useful lives

Estimated

  ​ ​ ​

Useful Lives

Buildings

 

20-50 years

Networks and technical equipment

 

3-30 years

Satellite transponders

 

15 years

Furniture and fixtures

 

10-15 years

Transportation equipment

 

4-8 years

Computer equipment

 

3-6 years

Leasehold improvements

 

5-20 years

Schedule of useful life of investment property

  ​ ​ ​

Estimated 
Useful Lives

Buildings

20-65 years

Schedule of intangible assets, estimated useful lives

Estimated

  ​ ​ ​

Useful Lives

Trademarks with finite useful lives

4 years

Licenses

 

3-10 years

Subscriber lists

 

4-5 years

Payments for renewal of concessions

 

20 years

Other intangible assets

 

3-20 years

Schedule of costs to obtain contracts with customers

Contract costs:

 

  ​

  ​

At January 1, 2025

 

Ps.

3,971,142

Additions

1,772,471

Amortization

(1,590,789)

Total contract costs at December 31, 2025

4,152,824

Less:

Current Contract Costs

1,499,798

Total non-current contract costs

 

Ps.

2,653,026

Contract costs:

At January 1, 2024

 

Ps.

5,330,186

Additions

1,414,599

Amortization

(1,680,496)

Impairment

(1,093,147)

Total contract costs at December 31, 2024

3,971,142

Less:

Current Contract Costs

1,483,022

Total non-current contract costs

 

Ps.

2,488,120

Schedule of new or amended standards issued by IASB

  ​ ​ ​

  ​ ​ ​

Effective for Annual

Reporting

Periods Beginning

New or Amended IFRS Accounting Standard

  ​ ​ ​

Title of the IFRS Accounting Standard

  ​ ​ ​

On or After

Annual Improvements (1)

Annual Improvements to IFRS Accounting Standards – Volume 11

January 1, 2026

Amendments to IFRS 9 and IFRS 7 (1)

Amendments to the classification and Measurement of Financial Instruments

January 1, 2026

IFRS 18

Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements

January 1, 2027

IFRS 19 (1) (2)

Subsidiaries without Public Accountability: Disclosures

January 1, 2027

Amendments to IFRS 10 and IAS 28

Sale or Contribution of Assets between an Investor and its Associate or Joint Venture

Postponed

Amendments to IFRS 9 and IFRS 7 (1)

Contracts Referencing Nature-dependent Electricity

January 1, 2026

Amendments to IFRS 19 (1)

Subsidiaries without Public Accountability: Disclosures

January 1, 2027

Amendments to IAS 21 (1)

Translation to a Hyperinflationary Presentation Currency

January 1, 2027

(1)This new or amended IFRS Accounting Standard is not expected to have a significant impact on the Group’s consolidated financial statements.
(2)An entity may elect to apply this IFRS Accounting Standard for reporting periods beginning on or after this date.

Amended IFRS Accounting Standard or Guidance

  ​ ​ ​

Subject of Amendments

IFRS 1 First-time Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards

Hedge accounting by a first-time adopter

IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures

Gain or loss on derecognition

Guidance on implementing IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures

Introduction - Disclosure of deferred difference between fair value and transaction price - Credit risk disclosures

IFRS 9 Financial Instruments

Derecognition of lease liabilities - Transaction price

IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial Statements

Determination of a ‘de facto agent’

IAS 7 Statement of Cash Flows

Cost method