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New Hi-Tech, Low-Cost Smart Phone Comes to Mexico

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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

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Telcel Launches First 5G Network in Mexico

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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

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AMLO Decrees Megaprojects ‘Matters of National Security’

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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

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Judge Suspends AMLO’s Hydrocarbon Reform

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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

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AMLO to Announce $40 Billion Infrastructure Plan

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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,”

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