Corporate Policy in Mexico During the Porfirian Age. The Telephone Companies, 1881-1905

In Mexico City, in the heyday of the Porfirio Díaz’s regime (1877-1911), a telephone system was developed by a private carrier, whose parent company was American Bell Telephone Company, which grew into a privately owned monopoly that served a clientele made up mostly of businessmen and government institutions. This essay tries to explain the company’s corporate policies to grow and profit in this incipient market, as well of the municipal council to regulate its operations till 1903, when its administrative powers were taken away by the federal government.telephone; policy; companies; Mexico; city council

Nacimiento de un mercado especial. El servicio telefónico en la ciudad de México, 1881-1911

In the heyday of the Porfirian Age, Mexico City saw the birth a new market: that of the telephone service. This essay refers to the creation of this market stressing its private nature and the monopolic structure of the urban market. This situation did not change much after the introduction of a new player, Swedish company Ericsson, which henceforth shared the market with its American rival. la ciudad de México vio el nacimiento de un mercado nuevo durante el Porfiriato (1877-1911): el mercado del servicio telefónico. Este ensayo trata acerca de la creación de este mercado haciendo hincapié en su carácter privado y la estructura monopólica del mercado urbano. Esta situación no se modificó sustancialmente luego de la aparición de un nuevo actor, la empresa sueca Ericsson, la cual compartió el mercado con su competidora estadounidense.Mexico; urban studies; telephone; Bell Company; Ericsson

The Birth of Mexican Telephony

In the heyday of the Porfirian Age, Mexico City saw the introduction of its first commercial telephone service by an American company. This essay presents an overview of this development and of the market it served aimed at the capital city's entrepreneur class.Mexico; telephone; Mexican Telephone Company; Ericsson

Water and telephone. The relationship between the local authority and a private business in Mexico City. (1881-1991) (in Spanish)

This is the history of the relationship between the Mexican Telephone Company and Mexico City municipal council in regard to a controversy about the government's longdrawn insistence on the telephone company to withdraw its street poles. The US company, however, based its opostition in the capital city's peculiar relationship with water. Built over a dried up lake it was nevertheless prone to flood. Yet the oportunity to get rid of the poles came when most of the flooding was fionally controled after 1900. Two years later, the city council named a special commission to study the feasibility of building an underground network so the telephone, telegraph and electric power utilities could bury their wires.Mexico; telephone; water; technology; council; urban affairs

«El agua y el teléfono. Relaciones entre el Ayuntamiento y una empresa privada en la ciudad de México, 1881-1911»,

This is the history of the relationship between the Mexican Telephone Company and Mexico City municipal council in regard to a controversy about the government's longdrawn insistence on the telephone company to withdraw its street poles. The US company, however, based its opostition in the capital city's peculiar relationship with water. Built over a dried up lake it was nevertheless prone to flood. Yet the oportunity to get rid of the poles came when most of the flooding was fionally controled after 1900. Two years later, the city council named a special commission to study the feasibility of building an underground network so the telephone, telegraph and electric power utilities could bury their wires

Las circunstancias de un tecnócrata. Miguel Ángel de Quevedo y el fin del Ayuntamiento capitalino

This is the story of Miguel Angel de Quevedo, who pursued a career as an architect and an electric engineer before beeing elected as Mexico City alderman. This essay purporst to examine what might have been the begining of technocracy in late-nineteenth century Mexico

Albor de la telefonía mexicana

In the heyday of the Porfirian Age, Mexico City saw the introduction of its first commercial telephone service by an American company. This essay presents an overview of this development and of the market it served aimed at the capital city's entrepreneur class

Nacimiento de un mercado especial. El servicio telefónico en la ciudad de México, 1881-1911

In the heyday of the Porfirian Age, Mexico City saw the birth a new market: that of the telephone service. This essay refers to the creation of this market stressing its private nature and the monopolic structure of the urban market. This situation did not change much after the introduction of a new player, Swedish company Ericsson, which henceforth shared the market with its American rival. la ciudad de México vio el nacimiento de un mercado nuevo durante el Porfiriato (1877-1911): el mercado del servicio telefónico. Este ensayo trata acerca de la creación de este mercado haciendo hincapié en su carácter privado y la estructura monopólica del mercado urbano. Esta situación no se modificó sustancialmente luego de la aparición de un nuevo actor, la empresa sueca Ericsson, la cual compartió el mercado con su competidora estadounidense

Corporate Policy in Mexico During the Porfirian Age. The Telephone Companies, 1881-1905

In Mexico City, in the heyday of the Porfirio Díaz’s regime (1877-1911), a telephone system was developed by a private carrier, whose parent company was American Bell Telephone Company, which grew into a privately owned monopoly that served a clientele made up mostly of businessmen and government institutions. This essay tries to explain the company’s corporate policies to grow and profit in this incipient market, as well of the municipal council to regulate its operations till 1903, when its administrative powers were taken away by the federal government

Políticas corporativas en México: el caso de la Compañía Telefónica Mexicana, 1881-1911

Since its inception in Mexico City the Mexican Telephone Company tried to deal with a budding market in an organized way. to do so it used several methods and approaches, including monopy pricing, suing potential competitors for patent violations, and controling the supply of technology. This essay intends to analyze the Mexican Telephone Company's corporate policies in Mexico City during the Porfirian Age (1881-1911