Using a Mexico Calling Card: Update Your Speed Dial Setting

The growing market demand for low-cost, high connection quality phone card solutions, combined with the exploding power of the Latino community, is making the need for a custom-tailored international phone card all the more acute. Some of the more advanced PIN-less calling cards will often feature a system whereby you can preregister your frequently called numbers in your online account.

Effective November 4, 2006, a customer calling from the U.S. to a cellular number in Mexico will need to dial a 1 after the Mexico country code (52) and before the 10-digit local number. Calls to a mobile number in Mexico will include an additional per-minute mobile termination charge.

Understanding how to dial Mexico is challenge enough. Add to that the difference in dialing patterns to landline vs. mobile phones and you'll want to call customer service before long. However, updating your speed dial setting should not be difficult if the refillable phone card you are using offers an easy-to-navigate online account management system. Ease of use has become a key factor in selecting your preferred Mexico calling card, along with connection reliability. The fewer dropped calls you experience, if any at all, the more you are liable to stick with the perfect prepaid phone card you have found.

The Mexican telecommunications authorities have been working on changing the Calling Party Pays service (CPP) so that national and international long distance calls received by mobile users will be paid by the caller. This practice has long been the standard in most European countries. Consumers complain that in Mexico itself no carrier has announced anything, not even the local telephone company. This has impacted the accounts of thousands of individual users.