Is Carlos Slim's Telcel Blocking Skype in Mexico? The Yucatan Times
go to original February 8, 2014

 
Phil Guest and his wife are expats from Stratford, Ontario, Canada, that return to Chicxulub, Yucatan every year during the winter. Skype has always been their link to family and friends in Canada as well as business, financial interests and medical associations.

This year they are simply unable to use Skype as Telcel has blocked the site. Considering Carlos Slim, Telcel owner, is one of the world’s richest, this seems rather absurd to them. Slim wants people like Phil Guest to use his phone system to call Canada something that is not fair and most likely won’t happen. Phil and his wife (like many other “Snowbirds”) love the Yucatan and the people, and they spend a considerable amount of money every year while here. Why should they give away their money to a monopoly like the one owned by Mr. Slim?

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