Something tells me Slim is behind all this.
Posted on 04/03/2007 2:53:09 PM PDT by Shuttle Shucker
The Mexico City government signed an agreement Monday with a Chinese telecommunications firm, ZTE, that is intended to provide free wireless internet throughout the city in 2008...The idea is that ZTE will now establish a subsidiary in Mexico City that will in turn create jobs. The agreement provides for the creation of a wireless network that can be accessed free of charge from anywhere in the capital city.
(Excerpt) Read more at eluniversal.com.mx ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
How are they going to get around the fact, though, that Mexico’s own federal communications commission (http://www.COFETEL.gob.mx ) still hasn’t doled out any marketable “WiMax” spectrum for use in this wireless broadband initiative? Forbes’ magazine’s 3rd wealthiest person on Earth, Carlos Slim, is a telecommunications monopolist in Mexico who still has too much power & influence down there (at our expense):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1800509/posts?page=5
Hey free internet. Let’s all move to Mexico City. Sorry, not gonna happen. Maybe Al Gore can subsidize this freebie with his carbon credits.
By this standard, every broken water main, car accident, and electical blackout is worthy of Breaking News.
Slim must have figured out a way to make money on it...
It’s all in the volume. ;)
Something tells me Slim is behind all this.
It’s been front page news on all the newspapers in Mexico, our neighboring trading partner with over 100 million inhabitants. It has also made major headlines on, for example Drudge and MSNBC today. It’s a major slap-in-the-face against Forbes’ 3rd wealthiest person on Earth, a telecommunications monopolist whose excessively high prices and impunity keep Mexico poor and our borders flooded with illegals. Do you really equate this news with such minor incidents, even as pro-immigration amnesty rallies are catching on again during this 1 year anniversary of the huge civil rights marches?
Latin America pinglist.
Yow, Carlos Slim also owns COMPUSA. Living here in Mexico under the shadow of this empire is fretful. He also supposedly owns the telephone company of Guatemala, and heavily invested in Argentina. They say he is a nice guy.
A really nice guy would have humored my claim to be a long lost nephew.
LOL
Who's going to be around down there to use it? They'll all be up here, homesteading their colonized territory...
Nice guys don't make $49 billion in a developing nation. Slim bought Carlos Salinas, which I suppose makes him nice, in a way.
Anybody wanna investigate (and help journalists investigate) some corrupt, powerful Mexican bureaucrats who are substantially responsible for our own Southern border problems? Mexico’s FCC
has been sitting on this WiMax spectrum-licensing issue for over a year, thereby keeping Mexico poor through their inaction (which keeps multi-billionaire Carlos Slim fat & happy, of course). One can confirm this scandal’s existence by calling the decision-makers directly at COFETEL in Mexico City to ask them why in the heck WiMax spectrum still isn’t licensed even as Mexico City’s new governor wants to GIVE wireless internet access away? His doing so could help relieve pressure on our U.S. borders which continue being flooded with the fallout from COFETEL’s corruption.
The bureaucrats speak English, although they may pretend not to when it serves them (and tape recordings of their evasiveness could be humorous and would be worth airing on Fox News):
Reynaldo César González Bustamante, el Director General de Planeación y Administración del Espectro (tel. 011-525-55-015-4005)
Enrique Rodriguez (tel. 011-525-55-015-4232)
Patricia Huesca (tel. 011-525-55-015-4209)<—she’s actually pretty morally upright, so they removed her from the project)...
Luz María Saldaña (sub-directora de espectro y de radiocomunicación de la COFETEL) (tel. 011-525-55-015-4031) (oddly enough, her official phone #’s temporarily out-of-service).
Mr. Gonzalez Abarca, Comisionado Técnica (partes del espectro): 011-525-55-015-4283.
And here’s the main phone # of COFETEL: 011-525-55-015-4000.
We invaded Iraq to help our own country deal with problems its tyranny helped export. Phonecalls and investigative reporting to our neighbor’s capital city hardly seem overly intrusive in comparison, do they?
Why would anyone want to live in that hell hole when they can live in a modern country like the US, and get all the freebies they want?
R-r-r-r-r-ight. Tell me another one, Pinocchio!
Carlos Slim evidently bought some bureaucrats at COFETEL too, and Mexico City’s new mayor (an aspiring presidential candidate) is indirectly calling attention to their refusal to license out the spectrum that could otherwise help Mexico solve its problems rather than export ‘em to us so they can vote for Democrats...
Actually, wireless internet is free in plenty of parks and libraries, and is available at considerable discounts elsewhere in the USA and abroad thanks to this new technology. Here’s a map of such projects in the USA:
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