Topic - Communications

On Feb 1st, NIC Mexico, the Mexican Domain Name System authority, announced the opening of a new ‘Country Top Level’ domain: Dot-MX.   Hitherto the country’s top level domain name extension was the more protracted Dot-COM.MX.
The domain authority was keen to promote the advent of its new country-code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), and position it as the premier extension […]

In February of this year, Mexican law-makers rushed a bill through Congress that requires mobile phone operators in Mexico to track and store all customer details, calls, voicemails and text messages.
The new law also requires people acquiring a new pre pay mobile phone to provide official identification at the point of purchase.  The purchase of a “pre pay” […]

The News, Mexico’s only English-language newspaper, resurfaced in October 2007, five years after going out of print.  Last week, less than two years after the title’s renaissance, the owners pulled out and closed down the offices.
The News was originally published by the O’Farrill family in 1950 and, in its heyday, was one of Mexico’s most successful publications, long before […]

As we have written about before now, traveling by bus in Mexico is a world-away from traveling by bus in the USA or UK.  Forget cramped seats and no legroom: the executive-class buses which connect towns and cities across Mexico offer luxuriously comfortable passenger cabins with just twenty-four wide seats on board which recline right […]

Power cuts are a regular feature in Mexico.  If you travel to Mexico on vacation, you’re unlikely to notice it as most hotels and resorts have power back-up systems in place; however, if you plan to live and work or retire in Mexico, you’ll come to know that power cuts are part and parcel of the […]

In the USA, Canada and the UK you dial the same set of codes to connect with a cell phone, regardless of where you or the cell phone are ‘based’, whereas in Mexico you need to learn a few rules to be able to connect with cell phones.
Mexico has adopted the ‘calling party pays’ scheme whereby it’s free to […]

A while ago, we published a blog article about accessing the Internet using WiFi in Mexico.  Since then Mexico’s dominant telco, Telmex, which runs the majority of WiFi hotspots in Mexico, has shut down access to Port 25 — the port most commonly used for sending email when you are using an email client like […]

Before WiFi (wiki) became a house-hold name and available in public spaces and homes across the world, the wireless technology that was expected to make “the Internet go mobile” was known as third-generation cellular telephones: “3G“, or broadband on your cell phone.
European governments, particularly the UK and Germany, excited in the late 90’s by dot-com mania and the euphoria of […]

Wireless Internet Access — WiFi (wiki) – is the technology which transformed the way in which people communicated with each other across the Internet while on the move.   The service began to appear at airports and other public spaces and, with the advent of high-speed internet access at home, manufacturers began to sell WiFi-enabled modems so that […]

Mexico’s communications network is one of the most well developed in all of Latin America.   This convenience comes at a price, as telephone costs in Mexico are relatively expensive.  There are alternatives and if you know where to look and how to buy, you can save a lot of money…
Telmex, Mexico’s incumbent Telco, has a […]