Guadalajara Reporter

Your local phone company, Telmex, was founded in 1947 when private investors bought the Swedish Ericcson’s Mexican telephone company. It was sold to the government in 1972 and run as a monopoly until 1990 when President Carlos Salinas ordered its sale to public investors. During the period Telmex was a monopoly, very little infrastructure improvements were made and it became almost impossible to get a new telephone line for your home.

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