New Cell Phone Information. Nov. 2006.

 

As of November 4th there are important changes in the way you will now dial from a regular phone to a cell phone.
From now on, the person who dials will pay the full cost of the phone call to a cell phone. In the past that was not the case, if you were making a long distance phone call from a regular phone (land-line) to a cell phone. The cell phone user had to pay part of the costs of the call.
The changes are confusing and you may need to take a patience pill or drink a shot of Tequila to get through these instructions…
Feel free to forward this information to your friends and business colleagues. Otherwise, you may never hear from them again!


    1. If you are making a phone call from a regular phone to a cell phone in the same city (same area code-LADA) there is no change. So for example if you are dialing a phone number a hard line in Puerto Vallarta (322) to a cell phone with an area code in Puerto Vallarta (322) you would dial: 044+322+ seven digit phone number.
      If you are making a long distance phone call from a regular phone to a cell phone in another city you will now need to dial with a 045 instead of 01.
      For example if you were to dial from a hard line in Puerto Vallarta (322) to a Guadalajara (333) cell phone the current way of dialing would be: 01 + 333 + seven digit phone number. Now you will dial: 045 + 333 + seven digit phone number
    2. If you are making a phone call from a regular phone to a cell phone that comes from your same city (same area code-LADA) but that cell phone is located temporarily in another city or region, you will still dial 044. So, for example, if you are dialing a phone number from a hard line in Puerto Vallarta (322) to a cell phone from Puerto Vallarta (322) but that is temporarily in Monterrey you would dial: 044 322 seven digit phone number.
      If you are dialing from a regular phone in the US or Canada to a cell phone in Mexico (52) you will add a 1. For example, if you wan to dial a cell phone in Guadalajara (333) from a hard line in Tucson you would currently dial 011+52+333 + seven digit phone number. As of November 4th you will dial 011+52 +1 +333 + seven digit phone number.
    3. Here is the complicated part: All of the above instructions apply to those persons who have their telephone services with Telmex! If you are a client of Alestra, Avantel, Axtel and Maxcom phone services in Mexico, if you are to make a phone call from your regular phone to a cell phone, you will continue to dial in the same way before the November 2nd changes.
    4. So if you are a client of Alestra, Avantel, Axtel and Maxcom and making a phone call from a regular phone to a cell phone in another city (different area code-LADA) there are no changes. For example if you were to dial from a hard line in Puerto Vallarta (322) to Guadalajara (333) you would continue to dial: 01 + 333 + seven digit phone number.

    5. If you are a client of Alestra, Avantel, Axtel and Maxcom and making a phone call from a regular phone to a cell phone that comes from your same city (same area code-LADA) but that cell phone is located temporarily in another city or region, you will still dial 044. So, for example, if you are dialing a phone number from a hard line in Puerto Vallarta (322) to a cell phone from Puerto Vallarta (322) but that is temporarily in Monterrey you would dial: 044+322+ seven digit phone number