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  1. @Xena, Ilox' 5 year capital spending program did not contemplate service in Chapala. They have all the business they can handle in central Mexico, i.e. all those factories from Queretaro towards Mexico City. Cost of capital is more expensive here than up North. They didn't want to risk the expense of coming up with a few hundred residential subscribers to find out whether service at lakeside would make any sense. We're not in the US. All they asked was that we showed them the interest to be really there. By getting about 300 people to sign up and prepay. That gave them a little seed money. Its called crowdsourcing. Those 300 risk takers made the difference. It happened. Telmex even seems to be coming around. Music to my ears that maybe a person who signed up recently, probably next to someone who already had it, got service quickly. I assure you, they are prioritizing the prepaids. But probably also paying attention to their productivity and synergies. Like any well run business would. If anyone thinks that markets are always efficient without a little community or government help, here's an example of the opposite.
    4 points
  2. This from TOB Placed the order in the Ilox office on March 8. Staff in the office said installation would be 2 months. Guys show up today (March 16) to do the installation. And although I didn't get a call or email warning, I can be very flexible for better internet speed. The guys didn't speak much english but we managed just fine. They were done in an hour and a half. Now happily getting 39.2 down and 9.5 up. Feels like warp speed. I signed up for the phone/internet package "Doble Full 40x30" for 399p per month. I used a US credit card for the repeating monthly charge.
    3 points
  3. The Thai massage I remember, the girl walks up and down your back using her toes to work on your spinal cord. The first time I selected the prettiest girl the second time the smallest. Ha ha
    1 point
  4. Both of us are truly outliers. Out of the service area with no need to ponder what was the original offer.
    1 point
  5. Maybe it is more life experience than IQ that causes some to accept the kind of promise made by Ilox. I just never believed it because it did not make sense to me. Maybe I am particularly cynical or perhaps other people are especially naive. I don’t know. Many (most?) people took Ilox at their word so people like me are the outliers.
    1 point
  6. I live in a condo near the border with Jocotopec. I am also one of the 300 early payers. Several weeks ago, I got a call from Ilox saying they would install the next day. The next day they said they were coming at noon. Needless to say they never showed up when they finally figured out where I was located - which involved many calls and text messages. They said they were not ready to work in this part of the village yet which we knew when they called. They gave an estimated installation date of mid to late April. I wasn't particularly happy about it, but nothing could be done. Then on Monday of this week we got a call from an Ilox technician saying he was coming to our condo to determine if Ilox would use our existing empty conduits. He already knew the name of our groundskeeper and promised he would be there later in the day. Needless to say, he did not show up at all for the entire week. We still do not know if Ilox will ever install in our neighborhood. I and other neighbors who have prepaid wrote a email asking for some clarification of what was going on to Jessica. No answer. If they had not started calling me, I would have guessed we would not see our installation until the summer at the earliest. Ilox gave us some hope a and then ignored us. We are less than impressed with Ilox so far.
    1 point
  7. There is someone locally who does Thai massage but I don't have the contact info. On Monday call Victor Youcha @ 766-1973 to get the contact info. Victor has been treated by the guy.
    1 point
  8. I've decided I'm not cheesed off. Whatever. I must have lived in Mexico for far too long to have that attitude, eh? What I WOULD have liked is that people on the west side of town starting with Joco and working east be hooked up first. THEIR Telmex service is absolutely abysmal.
    1 point
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