CFE Strikes Deal with Elon Musk to Provide Starlink Internet to Mexico
The contracts join the billionaire’s $5 billion into a gigafactory for electric vehicle brand Tesla in Nuevo León as part of Musk’s ties to Mexico
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New Hi-Tech, Low-Cost Smart Phone Comes to Mexico
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Smooth, a new hi-tech, android-interfaced smartphone company, began operations in Mexico on Friday, Sept. 23, offering innovative mobile telephony devices at affordable prices. Smooth offers a variety of mobile phones with 3G coverage and quick, reliable after-sale service to ensure dependable connectivity both throughout Mexico and internationally. With smartphones starting as low as 2,000 pesos, Smooth provides
Read moreTelcel Launches First 5G Network in Mexico
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Telcel, Mexico’s largest wireless telecommunication service, became the first company in the country to launch the new, super-fast fifth generation (5G) network on Tuesday, Feb. 22. A subsidiary of América Móvil, the massive telecommunications corporation owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, Telcel will now offer 5G to all its fixed plan clients who have contracts valued at
Read moreAMLO Decrees Megaprojects ‘Matters of National Security’
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what has been deemed by critics as a serious blow to Mexican democracy and political transparency, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a presidential decree late Monday, Nov, 22, declaring all his administration’s mega infrastructure projects as “matters of public interest and national security.” The decree, which was immediately met with opposition
Read moreJudge Suspends AMLO’s Hydrocarbon Reform
By KELIN DILLON Mexican Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro, who previously laid blows to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) energy and telecommunications reforms, ruled to suspend López Obrador’s controversial hydrocarbon law reform with general effects, the first such legal roadblock against the law. Gómez Fierro moved for the suspension to apply generally, since if it only affected the petitioners
Read moreMexico Now Requires Biometric Data for SIM Cards
By KELIN DILLON Beginning on Saturday, April 17, any consumers in Mexico wishing to purchase a new SIM card for their phones will be required to present biometric data that is set to be kept on file as part of the country’s new National Register of Mobile Users. Mexico is now the 18th country in the world to implement this
Read moreAMLO to Announce $40 Billion Infrastructure Plan
XINHUA Mexico’s government could unveil a key infrastructure investment plan as early as Sept. 15 which would include private sector participation in energy and communications projects, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Monday, Sept. 7. “We have already made significant headway. It’s just a matter of reaching an agreement (as to when) so that the plan is presented here,”
Read moreMexico’s Low Economic Growth Dims Jobs Perspective
XINHUA … Mexico’s labor market is facing a bleak outlook over the next few years as the economy shows no signs of recovery from slow growth…
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