Telephony Services in Mexico

Articles to help you get the most from modern telephony services in Mexico

Articles to help you get the most from modern telephony services in Mexico

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Telephone Area Dialing Codes in Mexico

This is an alphabetical list of Mexico’s major towns and cities with their telephone area codes. Also See: Guide to Communications in Mexico for details about how to dial to Mexico and to cities within Mexico. A Acapulco 744 Aguascalientes 449 C Cabo San...

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Fixed Line Call Charges Drop Sharply in Mexico

Legislation passed into law in 2014 and fully enacted on January 1, 2015 has shaken-up Mexico's telecommunications market and effectively made fixed-line telephone calls and internet services from residential lines among the most affordable in the world . . .

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Sending Email from Mexico

In a bid to clamp down on email spam, Telmex and other major internet companies running WiFi spots in Mexico have shut down access to Port 25—the port most commonly used for sending email when you are using an email client like Outlook, Windows...

Carlos Slim

The latest survey published by Fortune has named Carlos Slim, Mexico’s foremost business mogul, as the world’s richest man, ‘dethroning’ Bill Gates. Carlos Slim’s fortune is now valued at some $53.5 billion, whereas Bill Gates is left with a mere $53 billion.

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Impede Telemarketing Calls

Although middle-class households in Mexico don’t receive as many publicity offers as their American, Canadian and European counterparts, direct marketing has started to gain some traction here; telemarketing is particularly pervasive and junk email is also on the increase.