Unefon is a Mexican mobile telecommunications brand used by
AT&T Mexico
AT&T Mexico (formerly known as Iusacell and Nextel Mexico), also known as AT&T Mexico Wireless and AT&T Mexico Mobility, is a Mexican mobile telephone operator and subsidiary of AT&T. AT&T Mexico is headquartered in Mexico City. Its mobile networ ...
, a subsidiary of
AT&T Inc., used for prepaid products. The company was partially owned by
Grupo Salinas
Grupo Salinas is a corporate conglomerate formed in 2001 by several Mexican companies. The group consists of:
* TV Azteca - television and radio network
* Grupo Elektra - products include finance, home appliances, consumer electronics, furnitur ...
and Mexican media group
Televisa
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content.
In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
, and its network was
CDMA
Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. CDMA is an example of multiple access, where several transmitters can send information simultaneously over a single communicatio ...
only, using no
analog
Analog or analogue may refer to:
Computing and electronics
* Analog signal, in which information is encoded in a continuous variable
** Analog device, an apparatus that operates on analog signals
*** Analog electronics, circuits which use analog ...
base stations.
Starting 2010, Unefon started to use
GSM
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such ...
technology and started sharing Iusacell stations and network.
Telecommunications companies of Mexico
Mobile phone companies of Mexico
AT&T subsidiaries
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