Mexico Phone Directory

In Mexico there are two type of area codes ones is with two digits for Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City and the other is with three digits for the rest of the country. Landline phone numbers are composed from ten digits. Here are some area codes: 33 For Jalisco and Guadalajara, 81 for Nuevo Leon and Monterrey.

Mexico City has 55 as area code. Three digits area codes are for Chihuahua and Ciudad Juarez 656, Tamaulipas and Tampico have 833, Mexico and Toluca have 722, Sinaloa and Culiacan have 668, Baja California and Tijuana have attributed 664, for Quintana Roo and Cancun use 686 as area code, Coahuila and Torreon have 871. Area code for Yucatan and Merida is 999, Puebla has 222 and Queretaro 442.

Mobile phone market is covered by Telcel IUSACell and Spain’s `Movistar`. Tellcell covers the most of the market. Mexican laws require that that all cell phone have to be registered by their owners by providing official identification in the moment of acquisition. If you are in Mexico for a short period of time you could purchase one of prepay cell phone kits. There are also cell phone rental services found in many hotels. There are also the roaming options.

Cheaper way to call from Mexico is Internet telephony or VOIP. All you need is your laptop if you travel with one (many people travel with their laptop to get keep contact with their friends at home through their blog or social networking sites. The most known software used for VOIP are Skype or Vonage.

Some Mexico phone directories for finding information about businesses, people and their adress and phone numbers you can use the following sites: http://www.phonebookoftheworld.com/, http://www.paginasblancas.com.mx/, http://www.directory.com.mx/, http://www.paginasamarillas.com/pagamanet/web/home.aspx?ipa=9&idi=2, http://www.paginasutiles.com.mx/, http://www.seccionamarilla.com.mx/. There are lots of sites for English speakers so there is no problem in finding what you are searching for. If you are finding sites in Spanish there are also other options like to use Google translator or babel fish or any other type of machine translators.

The accuracy of these machine translators is not so good. But you are not using them to translate information about brain surgery, you merely search for a person’s address, and phone number if you know the name, or you search for the name and address if you know the phone number. So the translation made by those sites is reasonable and can give you a starting point in your quest.

Use search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN or Bing or meta search engines like Metacrawler or Dogpile (these ones just trough a single search you get results from all major search engines.) to find another Mexico phone directory than the ones I have exemplified for you. Tweak your search by using advanced options to narrow it to regional sites relevant to Mexico.

Search engines in their quest to give the internet user exactly what he needs have integrated algorithms into their search to provide information related to the area where the user is connected. If you are from France you get results relevant for France without changing anything. This is good the most times, but can be an obstacle when you need information from outside your area. Like this situation when you need information from Mexico without living out there to prepare your travel accordingly.