Sprint and Telmex Unite to Offer Seamless Services to Businesses in Mexico and the US

Strategic Insights -

Sprint and Mexico's largest telecommunications carrier, Telmex, have partnered to offer high-quality voice and data services to businesses in both Mexico and the US. The common platform of technology and services will be rolled out in early 1996, providing users with access to Sprint's seamless, integrated North American network. This alliance is a year ahead of other US and international carriers seeking to offer similar services in Mexico as the market opens to competition in 1997.

Key Takeaways:

  • Sprint and Telmex will offer a common platform of technology and services to businesses in Mexico and the US, providing seamless access to Sprint's integrated North American network.
  • The partnership will give customers access to high-quality voice and data services, including frame relay and X.25, and enhanced data services through interconnection with SprintNet, the world's largest public data network.
  • Paolo Colombi, formerly managing director of Sprint International France, has been named President of Sprint International Mexico, S.A. de C.V. to oversee the delivery of seamless services to Sprint-Telmex customers.
  • The Sprint-Telmex alliance will bring real, one-stop-shopping to the corporate US-Mexico market, allowing customers to fulfill all their corporate telecommunications requirements from a single source.
  • Other service platforms to be introduced by Sprint-Telmex in 1996 include virtual private networks and a calling card platform, providing multinational business customers and residential consumers with seamless access to international caller services.

Statistics:

  • The Sprint-Telmex alliance will support a common infrastructure to support the new seamless services, with both companies entering into joint promotions and joint marketing and sales activities.
  • Sprint is a more than $12.6 billion international telecommunications company, providing voice, video and data networking solutions to the world's commercial, government and financial centers.
  • The partnership allows customers to access Sprint's high speed data services throughout Mexico, with service availability as early as January 1996.

Sources:

  • Sprint and Telmex partner to offer seamless services to businesses in Mexico and the US (PRNewswire, December 7, 1995)
  • Sprint International Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (official website, 1995)
  • Telmex, S.A. de C.V. (official website, 1995)
  • Sprint's press releases, 1995 (including the quoted segment "Corporations looking for state-of-the-art local area network-to-local area network connectivity or high quality managed router services need look no further than the Sprint-Telmex alliance...")