ekrell@ulysses.att.com (02/01/91)
*** Reminder: Starting February 1st, instead of dialing 905 or 706 to
call certain parts of Mexico, you will be able to call anywhere in the
country from the United States by dialing 011 + 52 + NATIONAL NUMBER.
In areas where operator assistance is required, there will be no
additional charge.
Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
UUCP: {att,decvax,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell Internet: ekrell@ulysses.att.comsrini@ultra.com (S. Srinivasan) (02/05/91)
In <16584@accuvax.nwu.edu> ekrell@ulysses.att.com writes: >*** Reminder: Starting February 1st, instead of dialing 905 or 706 to >call certain parts of Mexico, you will be able to call anywhere in the >country from the United States by dialing 011 + 52 + NATIONAL NUMBER. >In areas where operator assistance is required, there will be no >additional charge. On a related note, why didn't Mexico choose to go with the "Gringo Peeg" Bell System, and opted instead for the European one? With the onset of free-trade (hopefully), this might be a severe detraction. I suspect a call to Mexico would be routed to one of the International Switching Centers (AT&T-speak) - and where's the closest one to San Diego - Atlanta?!!! Anyone care to explain what is it about the European telephone system that makes it different from the Bell System that the two require "internetworking with special-purpose routers"? Is it just that we use the North American Digital Hierarchy, i.e. DS-0,DS-1,DS-3, etc, and that they use the CEPT? Or is it more to do with Inter-Office Signalling? Thanks, and sorry for all the question marks, (S. Srinivasan ...!{ames!}srini@ultra.com) Ultra Network Technologies - "Home of the Gigabit Network" - San Jose, Calif.
wright@ais.org (Carl Wright) (02/09/91)
In article 16697 S. Srinivasan writes in response to the news that the two area codes in Mexico disappeared: > On a related note, why didn't Mexico choose to go with the "Gringo > Peeg" Bell System, and opted instead for the European one? With the > onset of free-trade (hopefully), this might be a severe detraction. I > suspect a call to Mexico would be routed to one of the International > Switching Centers (AT&T-speak) - and where's the closest one to San > Diego - Atlanta?!!! If I understand him correctly, I think he has misunderstood several things: 1) Call routing and especially costing has not changed with the elimination of the area codes and the need to use the 52 country code. The 52 country code has worked for longer than I know and was necessary with the area codes in place to reach lesser known Mexican call destinations. 2) The issue of free-trade is especially interesting since Southwestern Bell, France Telecom, and a Mexican group have purchased TelMex for several billion dollars. The phone number issue doesn't relate at all to the present trade policies of Mexico. They are already showing a significant amount of openess to their northern neighbor. 3) Is the country code numbering plan what you mean by the European system? If it is then, you probably didn't realize that "1" is the country code for the U.S. and Canada. The USSR is the only other single digit (7) country code and that may change with the continuing political changes. I'm biased. I've been helping setup cellular billing operations in Mexico City this year and I'm impressed by the people and the task they have before them. They have all kinds of things that a gringo would think are screwy, but they are working to fix the bad ones and keep the good ones. Carl Wright | Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. Internet: wright@ais.org | 2350 Green Rd., #160 Voice: 1 313 995 5590 EST | Ann Arbor, MI 48105