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  50 Years Is Enough! Privatization in Mexico: Telmex
The fact that Telmex workers have remained relatively quiet on the issue can no doubt also be explained by the fact that they received a 4.4 percent share of the privatized company.
Telmex's monopoly on both domestic and international long-distance services ended in January 1997.
While Telmex's prices will continue to be regulated for the next six years, the new competitors are free to set their own prices.
www.50years.org /factsheets/telmex.html   (1265 words)

  
 TheStreet.com: Telmex's Telling Transformation
Telmex is making a remarkable yet underappreciated transformation from stolid utility to burgeoning growth stock, these people say.
"Telmex is still being priced as a boring fixed-line utility when it's becoming a growth telco." Graham has around 5% of his fund in Telmex.
Telmex's cellular subsidiary Telcel, which accounts for 10% of revenue, is growing at a torrid pace, and could, according to Morgan Stanley's Carvalho, contribute 22% of revenue by 2000.
www.thestreet.com /int/latinloot/727032.html   (1053 words)

  
 News @ Cisco: Cisco to Build Telmex Chile's First 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network
Telmex is already working with clients to help them gain from this new infrastructure, and will soon be able to offer a variety of advanced applications in other cities like Valparaíso, Concepción or Temuco, as market growth requires.
TELMEX is the foremost telecommunications company in Latin America, with operations in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico and the United States.
TELMEX has the technological capacity and strategic partnerships to guarantee our clients the technology, service, attention and support they need for their telecoms services.
newsroom.cisco.com /dlls/2005/prod_062905.html?CMP=AF17154   (854 words)

  
  Telmex at AllExperts
Telmex was founded in 1947 when a group of Mexican investors bought Swedish Ericsson's Mexican branch.
Telmex was sold to a group of investors formed principally by Carlos Slim, France Télécom, Southwestern Bell Corporation (resulting in "Taco Bell" used jokingly to refer to the purchase).
In 2000, Telmex spun off their mobile unit, creating América Móvil, which controls Radio Móvil Dipsa and would be free to develop as its own business as an independent entity.
en.allexperts.com /e/t/te/telmex.htm   (1035 words)

  
 Forbes.com: TEXT-Moody's assigns, affirms Telmex ratings
Telmex's ratings are constrained by its decision to maintain its traditional telephone tariffs unchanged for another year.
Telmex's ratings could be upgraded if sales growth, profitability and free cash flow generation improve faster-than-expected, in particular, due to the combination of higher call volume, increased pricing and lower labor and pension costs.
Telmex's ratings could be under downward pressure if the company experiences faster-than-expected deterioration of its profitability levels and free cash flow generation due to a low volume growth, lack of pricing power, and higher salaries and contributions to the pension fund.
www.forbes.com /markets/newswire/2003/11/12/rtr1145338.html   (815 words)

  
 U.S. Carriers Oppose Telmex Plan - Technology News by TechWeb
The FCC approved the Telmex request Friday to offer service between the United States and Mexico through a joint venture with Sprint (company profile).
Telmex promised the FCC it would lower call-completion rates to Mexico to 19 cents a minute by Jan. 1, 2000.
Telmex, which was privatized in 1990, is the leading carrier in Mexico and offers local and international long distance, wireless, data, and video transmissions.
www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB19980810S0017   (541 words)

  
 Forbes.com: Telmex aims to revive growth with new products   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Investors used to look at Telmex (nyse: TMX - news - people), the most liquid Latin American firm on Wall Street, as a great growth stock for their portfolios but, after a string of weak quarters, its reputation is now more as a dependable generator of dividends and share buybacks.
He said Telmex will continue to concentrate on new products and services to boost phone traffic, saying it has already seen some traffic growth out of new products such as home phones that work with a pre-paid card and do not have a fixed monthly bill, and shared phones in apartment buildings.
Telmex has not raised its rates for close to two years and Chico said it would not offset the price freeze by lowering the number of free local calls included in the basic monthly phone bill to 70 from 100 a month, as it has the right to do under its concession.
www.forbes.com /technology/newswire/2003/07/24/rtr1036838.html   (827 words)

  
 Exstream Software 2006 Press Release
Telmex is the leading provider of telecommunications in Central and South America, with operations in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Peru.
Telmex has made investments of 29 billion dollars during the period of 1990-2004 to ensure the growth and modernization of its infrastructure and to develop a 100 percent digital technological platform that operates thousands of optical fiber networks of more than 80 thousand kms.
Telmex and its subsidiaries offer the widest range of advanced services of telecommunications, including transmission of voice, data and video, integral access to Internet and solutions for clients of small and medium-sized companies, as well as for large international corporations.
www.exstream.com /PressReleases/2006/0823_Telmex.asp   (785 words)

  
 Mexico's Telmex buying Peru's Boga - Boston.com
Telefonos de Mexico, or Telmex, said Tuesday it was buying a Peruvian cable TV operator, furthering its expansion into South America.
Telmex, Mexico's largest fixed-line phone company, said it is in the process of buying Boga Comunicaciones, which has operations in the Peruvian capital of Lima and in Chiclayo.
Telmex is especially keen to buy cable TV operators with a view to upgrade their networks to offer triple-play -- the bundling of voice, Internet and video services over the same network -- to residential users.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2007/02/13/mexicos_telmex_buying_perus_boga   (257 words)

  
 telmex.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Telmex, Mexico's telephone powerhouse, wants to create the Hispanic Internet in the latest bid to claim the largely-unwired market, the company's chief executive told U.S. investors, according the international news agency Reuters.
Telmex plans to set its plans in motion through a computer supply contract it signed last month with Acer Computec Latino America, the Latin American division of Taiwan's Acer Computer International.
Telmex is interested in providing Internet services as well to Puerto Rico, where it teamed with SBC Communications to buy Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico in a $464 million deal, and in Guatemala where it operates Telgua, Reuters said.
www.contactomagazine.com /telmex.htm   (398 words)

  
 Mexico's Telmex May Raise Portugal Telecom Stake
Telmex is always looking for companies and countries in which to invest its money.
Telmex is also building up its presence in Brazil, where it controls a cable TV operator and long distance carrier Embratel Participacoes.
Telmex's American Depositary Receipts were up nearly 0.4% at $24.15, less than an hour from Friday's close.
www.cellular-news.com /story/18791.php   (565 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Mexico's Telmex to take control of Colombia's state-owned Telecom
Telmex's inital $350 million investment would be followed by 15 annual payments, starting at about $175 million.
Telmex would receive 3 percent of revenues for as long as it remains a shareholder.
Telmex is Mexico's dominant carrier, with about 95 percent of the country's fixed lines.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20050826-1307-colombia-mexico-phonemerger.html   (639 words)

  
 CIENA SELECTED BY TELÉFONOS DE MÉXICO (TELMEX) AS A STRATEGIC VENDOR FOR NEXT-GENERATION NETWORK - Ciena
TELMEX is widely considered one of the world's strongest carriers, having recently been ranked at the top of Forbes.com's list of "The World's Best Telecom Companies." In that feature, TELMEX was chosen as the "Spotlight" company for its ability to adapt its technology to the market it serves.
It is TELMEX's ability to provide a wide range of services and programs for Mexico's business and residential markets that has distinguished the carrier from its peers around the globe.
TELMEX (NYSE: TMX) is the leading telecommunications company in Mexico with more than 13.6 million telephone lines in service, 1.7 million lines equivalents for data transmission and 986,000 accounts with access to the Internet.
www.ciena.com /news/news_406.htm   (781 words)

  
 Telmex
Telmex International IP VPN Services meets the customers´ needs by providing the best cost/benefit solution for their telecommunications investments by providing the best performance.
Telmex International IP VPN Services adds the possibility of establishing Classes of Service (CoS) levels suitable for voice, video or data applications to the traditional interconnection between remote offices.
Telmex International IP VPN Services, based on MPLS technology, add value to the traditional concept of Point-to-Multipoint links since they are based on a “full mesh” network topology between its different points.
www.telmexusa.com /us/bus_ipv_prod.html   (467 words)

  
 BW Online | June 18, 2001 | Telmex: Mexico's 800-Pound Gorilla
Telmex boasts 58% of the market for international calls originating in Mexico, 68% of the domestic long-distance market, and 97% of the local market.
Telmex' control over local phone lines means the company gets a cut of all the growth in Mexico's estimated $12 billion telecom market.
Telmex' net margins of 25% are almost double the 13% average for full-service telecom companies around the globe, says Merrill Lynch.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/01_25/b3737725.htm   (536 words)

  
 Skype Journal: Telmex Will Not Empower Users -- The QOS Tax
A fascinating comment received today from Telmex in response to our post asking if Telmex is "blocking" Skype and Vonage users.
TELMEX is making this to Skype users because they don´t want us to stop paying long distance calls.
I know from a VERY reliable (internal) source that TelMex's Prodigy Infinitum uses CISCO in their infraestructure and that the engineers were instructed to block random UDP packets ever since VoIP became widely available.
www.skypejournal.com /blog/2005/05/telmex_will_not_empower_users_1.html   (882 words)

  
 developingtelecoms.com - Mexico opens up phone market - will Telmex suffer?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Telmex, by contrast, was required to supply services to these latter categories.
Telmex must indeed meet this and other requirements if it wants to move into television as a condition of moving into television.
Add together the threat to Telmex plus its track-record of bringing law-suits plus the already overburdened Mexican courts and the sum total is that change will be lost without trace for years in complex litigation.
developingtelecoms.com /content/view/527/26   (837 words)

  
 CorpWatch : MEXICO: NGO Battles Telmex Planning Move into US Market
She recalled how an older widow was once presented with a Telmex bill for thousands of pesos because of calls made to a phone sex line the woman did not make.
Other charges against Telmex by critics are that the company applies fees to competitors whose customers make toll-free calls from pay phones and applies a local charge when clients of other carriers make long-distance calls.
In response, Telmex officials have told the Mexican and foreign press during the last two years that the company is always willing to meet with any disgruntled customer and review complaints.
www.corpwatch.org /print_article.php?id=1489   (1419 words)

  
 Avantel and Alestra vs Telmex   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the latter case, Telmex charged its competitors¡¦ clients a $0.50 per minute access fee, although users calling to 800 numbers offered by Telmex were not subject to this charge.
In 1997 Avantel requested Telmex to enter into a contract which would enable it to absorb the $0.50 charge for 800 number calls originated from public telephones, in order to free its users from this payment.
In this point, Telmex was correct in arguing that there is not sufficient evidence to support the degree of dangerousness and the lack of evidence to prove a repeated offense by engaging in monopolistic practices in violation of the FLEC, and therefore the FCC determined the reduction of the fine imposed.
www.apeccp.org.tw /doc/Mexico/Case/mxcas11.html   (560 words)

  
 La Iniciativa de Comunicacion - Dicen los Medios - Telmex acuerda ingreso a estatal Colombia Telecom   (Site not responding. Last check: )
El gigante mexicano Telmex, uno de los pilares del imperio de Carlos Slim, acordó el viernes adquirir por 350 millones de dólares una participación mayoritaria en la estatal Colombia Telecomunicaciones, la empresa de telefonía fija más grande de ese país.
Telmex está en medio de una encarnizada lucha por el liderazgo del mercado regional de las telecomunicaciones contra la española Telefónica, que también insinuó interés por la estatal colombiana a través de socios locales.
Telmex es un ex monopolio estatal que controla más del 85 por ciento de las líneas fijas, domina el mercado de larga distancia y el de acceso a Internet en México.
www.comminit.com /la/printversion.cgi?url=http://www.comminit.com/la/dicenlosmedios/dicen2005/dicenlosmedios-611.html   (489 words)

  
 Telmex Selects Nortel Networks' Advanced Optical Networking System
Telmex has selected Nortel Networks' 10 Gbit/s transmission platform to build Mexico's fastest optical network.
With this new network, Telmex will have the capacity to transmit between the cities of the equivalent of approximately 500,000 phone conversations or 500 television channels on a single fiber.
The first link of Telmex's network will be ready for deployment this month.
www.nortel.com /corporate/news/newsreleases/1999d/12_07_9999583_telmex_dwdm.html   (491 words)

  
 Como instalar Infinitum de Telmex en Linux
Te recomiendo que Telmex te envie un modem de tarjeta de red, aunque el de USB seguramente funciona nunca lo he intentado configurar.
Telmex tiene (por lo menos) dos modelos, el "Speed Touch Pro" y el "Speed Touch Home" ambos funcionan, la diferencia principal es que con el Pro no es necesario tener una maquina configurada como gateway, pues tiene servicio de DHCP y NAT (IP masq integrado).
La unica informacion que necesitas por parte de telmex es tu nombre de usuario (login) y tu password.
www.gnome.org /~chema/infinitum   (906 words)

  
 TELMEX Acquires Enlace Spanish Yellow Pages
TELMEX will rebrand the U.S. directories with the SECCION AMARILLA logo and name, a brand with over 100 years of experience in the directory business and currently with over 135 directories published and distributed throughout Mexico.
TELMEX is the leading Telecommunications Company in Mexico.
TELMEX and its subsidiaries provide a wide range of telecommunications services, data and video transmission and Internet access, as well as integrated telecommunications solutions to its corporate customers.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-24-2006/0004458290&EDATE=   (370 words)

  
 Telmex: Affordable Internet Plans Reaping Rewards
These customized plans allow customers to mix and match services according to their needs, has reaped significant rewards for the company.
In 2003, Telmex began offering a discounted computer as an included option with the plan.
For ADSL, Telmex offers 1024, 1280, and 2024 Kbps in addition to the 512Kbps plan (shown in Exhibit 1).
www.pyramidresearch.com /bb_sep28_telmex.htm   (200 words)

  
 Telmex makes analysts' Q1 forecast
Telmex reported $2.81 billion in revenue for the first quarter, which ended March 31, a 23.7 percent increase over the same period a year ago.
Since 1997, Telmex has complained about foreign calls entering Mexico that are converted to local calls or domestic long-distance calls, and which affect Telmex's bottom line because it receives no revenue from by-pass calls.
Telmex reported an additional 1.22 million subscribers to bring its wireless subscriber total to 6.50 million, a 156.6 percent annual hike, according to the statement.
www.infoworld.com /articles/en/xml/00/05/15/000515entelmex.html   (1134 words)

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