Article 168 Ter Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE FIVE. Crimes in matters of communication routes and correspondence · CHAPTER I. Attacks on communication routes and violation of correspondence
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
A penalty of twelve to fifteen years of imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever manufactures, markets, acquires, installs, carries, uses or operates equipment that blocks, cancels or nullifies cellular telephone, radiocommunication or data or image transmission signals, with the exception of what is established in the second paragraph of article 190 Bis of the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law (Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión).
The equipment referred to in the first paragraph of article 190 Bis of the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law shall be seized in terms of what the National Code of Criminal Procedure establishes and subsequently must be destroyed in their entirety.
If the crime to which the first paragraph of this article refers is committed by public officials, and without express written authorization duly accredited by their immediate superior, the penalty of fifteen to eighteen years of imprisonment shall be imposed.