Do you know the new dialing instructions in Mexico?

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. Currently that was not the case if you were making a long distance phone call from a regular phone (hard-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!

• 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 changes. So for example if you are dialing a phone number a hard line in Mexico City (55) to a cell phone with an area code in Mexico City (55) you would dial: 044+55+ eight digit phone numberIf 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 Mexico City (55) to Monterrey (81) the current way of dialing would be: 01 + 81 + eight digit phone number. As of November 4th you will dial: 045 + 81 + eight digit phone number
• 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 Mexico City (55) to a cell phone from Mexico City (55) but that is temporarily in Monterrey you would dial: 044 55 eight 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 Monterrey (81) from a hard line in Tucson you would currently dial 011+52+81 + eight digit phone number. As of November 4th you will dial 011+52 +1 +81 + eight digit phone number.
  
• 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 2d changes.
• 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 Mexico City (55) to Monterrey (81) you would continue to dial: 01 + 81 + eight digit phone number.
• 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 Mexico City (55) to a cell phone from Mexico City (55) but that is temporarily in Monterrey you would dial: 044+55+ eight digit phone number