Mexico is building long-haul fiber faster than ever, but the one route that matters most still doesn't exist. While new lines connect Querétaro to Texas and Arizona, nothing runs directly south from El Paso and…
Mexico's telecom story in 2026 isn't about who builds more fiber. It's about who owns it. From Telefónica's exit and the Axtel bidding war to América Móvil's expansion abroad, ownership shifts are reshaping the infrastructure…
In February 2023, Epic Games opened a Fortnite server region in Dallas, built for players in Mexico and the central United States.1 Two years later, Mexican tech media reported Fortnite players connecting to servers in…
Institutional partner backs MDC’s next phase of growth on the U.S. border and inside Mexico McALLEN, TX, Sept. 2, 2026 — MDC Data Centers today announced that it has received a minority investment from Columbia…
Mexico's digital infrastructure conversation is conducted in megawatts. But only 49% of the country's top thousand websites can be reached from inside it, against an Americas average of 69%. The constraint is not capacity or…
Capacity arrives with the cable. An interconnection point does not. Marseille took roughly six years to become one, Fortaleza closer to twenty, and neither got there by landing cables. As modern systems split fiber pair…
Mexico's telecom sector is in a once-a-decade reset: Telefónica is exiting, the IFT has been dissolved, and hyperscalers are committing billions. With mobile and household penetration already past 86% and 78%, the next competitive battle…
Gamers in northern Mexico often see about 40 milliseconds of latency to Dallas game servers, well above the 10 to 15 milliseconds that fiber optics physically allow. The gap comes from legacy routing that sends…
MDC Data Centers has activated its tenth International Fiber Crossing (IFC), a new carrier-neutral route linking Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Tamaulipas. The addition extends the BorderConnect Platform™ to the Gulf Coast, giving carriers a redundant…
The 2026 World Cup proves what Brazil, Europe, and Japan already learned: live streaming demands local interconnection. MEX-IX applies that lesson at the US-Mexico border.
