Cablemas
Encyclopedia
Cablemás, S.A. de C.V. is a Mexican telecommunications company with its headquarters in Colonia Juárez
, Cuauhtémoc
, Mexico City
.
It is the second-largest cable operator in Mexico after Megacable. It has offered cable since the late 1980s, and broadband Internet since the late 1990s with approximately 953,000 cable TV customers, 325,000 high speed internet customers, and 180,000 telephony lines in 49 cities in Mexico (July 2010). Cablemas is also the first company to distribute VoIP in Tijuana, Baja California. VoIP is the spearhead of Cablemas's new promotionals.
Due to the laws in Mexico, telecommunication companies cannot provide more than two services. An example of this is the company Telnor
, which provides telephones and Internet. Another example is Megacable
, a company that provides cable and broadband Internet. To provide more services, Cablemas made an alliance with Axtel
, a new telephone company operating from Monterrey, and the new Cablemas-Axtel Alliance was born with nearly 1,000 customers.
The spearhead of the Cablemas operation is the city of Tijuana, which is also the city that produces the highest influx of money into the company.
The company is currently working on High Definition
channels. Cabelmas uses Conax security systems.
Colonia Juárez (Mexico City)
Colonia Juarez is one of the better–known neighborhoods or colonias in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. Its boundaries are: the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and Eje Bucareli to the north, Avenida Chapultepec to the south, Eje 1 Poniente to the east and Circuito Interior José Vasconcelos to...
, Cuauhtémoc
Cuauhtémoc, D.F.
Cuauhtémoc, named after the former Aztec leader, is one of the 16 boroughs of the Federal district of Mexico City. It consists of the oldest parts of the city, extending over what was the entire city in the 1920s. This area is the historic and culture center of the city, although it is not the...
, Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
.
It is the second-largest cable operator in Mexico after Megacable. It has offered cable since the late 1980s, and broadband Internet since the late 1990s with approximately 953,000 cable TV customers, 325,000 high speed internet customers, and 180,000 telephony lines in 49 cities in Mexico (July 2010). Cablemas is also the first company to distribute VoIP in Tijuana, Baja California. VoIP is the spearhead of Cablemas's new promotionals.
Due to the laws in Mexico, telecommunication companies cannot provide more than two services. An example of this is the company Telnor
Telnor
Telnor, or Teléfonos del Noroeste is a company providing telephone and internet services since 1981...
, which provides telephones and Internet. Another example is Megacable
Megacable
Megacable Holdings S. A. B. de C.V., doing business as Megacable Comunicaciones, is a Mexican cable operator and provider of internet and phone service. It has its headquarters in Colonia El Fresno, Guadalajara, Jalisco....
, a company that provides cable and broadband Internet. To provide more services, Cablemas made an alliance with Axtel
Axtel
Axtel , is a Mexican telecommunications company, headquartered in Monterrey, that provides telecommunication products and services in Mexico...
, a new telephone company operating from Monterrey, and the new Cablemas-Axtel Alliance was born with nearly 1,000 customers.
The spearhead of the Cablemas operation is the city of Tijuana, which is also the city that produces the highest influx of money into the company.
The company is currently working on High Definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
channels. Cabelmas uses Conax security systems.