Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Satellite internet service announces expansion across Mexico

The United States company Hughes Network Systems announced on Tuesday that it will expand its satellite internet service to most of Mexico starting on October 1.

According to a press release, HughesNet high-speed satellite internet will be available for 95% of Mexico, including rural and marginalized areas. According to a 2018 report by Freedom House, only 63.9% of Mexicans were connected to the internet in 2018, and only 14% of internet users were in rural areas.

HughesNet provides satellite internet service to 1.4 million people in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the United States. The service offers download speeds of up to 25 megabits per second, much higher than Mexico’s national average of 6 Mbps.

Hughes hopes to deliver internet to the millions of Mexican homes that are not connected, especially in remote areas where infrastructure is limited.

“We don’t depend on cable or fiber infrastructure,” said marketing manager Cristina Mendoza at an event to inaugurate the service on Tuesday. “That means we can offer our services in our coverage areas independently of geographic conditions or population density.”

Initially HughesNet will only be available to residential customers, but the company hopes to offer internet to small and large businesses in the future.

Source: La Razón (sp)

A farmer protesting corn prices in Mexico sits in his tractor during a blockade in León, Mexico

Farmers end highway blockades after ag ministry agrees to 950 peso per tonne corn subsidy

0
The Mexican government reached an agreement with corn farmers early Wednesday that will benefit 90,000 small-scale producers with plots of up to 20 hectares and cover up to 200 tonnes per producer.
The U.S. Department of War, at the direction of President Trump, carried out on Monday three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Mexico rescues lone survivor of US strikes on alleged drug boats that killed 14

0
Sheinbaum told her Tuesday morning press conference that the Mexican Navy, “for humanitarian reasons” and in accordance with “international treaties, decided to rescue” the survivor of the U.S. strikes but that her government “doesn’t agree with these attacks as they occur.”
Aaron Ramsey and Halo

Saga of soccer star’s missing dog Halo continues in San Miguel de Allende 

4
Aaron Ramsey, the first high-profile British soccer star in Liga MX, has been looking for his dog Halo since Oct. 10. Whether she's lost or stolen, dead or alive, he wants her back.
BETA Version - Powered by Perplexity