América Móvil

América Móvil, SAB de CV

Type	Public (NYSE: AMX, BMV: AMX, NASDAQ: AMOV )
Founded	Mexico City, Mexico (2000)
Headquarters	México, DF, Mexico
Key people	Patrick Slim, chairman Daniel Hajj Aboumrad, General Manager Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo, CFO
Products	Wireless telephone
Revenue	▲ $28,5 billion USD (2007)
Employees	41,000 (2007)
Website	Americamovil.com

América Móvil (NYSE: AMX, BMV: AMX, NASDAQ: AMOV) is a holding company forming the fourth largest mobile network operator in terms of equity subscribers, the largest corporation in Latin America, and a Fortune 500 company. A venture of Carlos Slim Helú, América Móvil provides services to over 182 million wireless subscribers in the Americas, primarily in Latin America and the Caribbean.^[1] It was ranked the number 1 Information Technology company in 2005 by the Business Week magazine.^[2]

Company information

The company's world headquarters are located in Mexico City, Mexico. Its Mexican subsidiary Telcel is the largest mobile operator in Mexico, commanding a market share in excess of 70 per cent. In the United States, it operates under the trademarks TracFone and StraightTalk, and is the leading national pre-paid wireless service. Trademarks elsewhere include Claro in Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay and Puerto Rico; Comcel Colombia in Colombia; and Porta in Ecuador

América Móvil acquired 100 percent of Jamaican mobile operator Oceanic Digital, under the brand name MiPhone in August 2007.^[3]. On November 15, 2005, the company signed an international pact with Vodafone to jointly deliver various international services.^{[citation needed]}

América Móvil Global Wireless Customers

As of December 2008 [1],

• México / Telcel 56.371 million
• Brazil / Claro 38.731 million
• Colombia / Comcel Colombia 27.390 million
• Argentina Paraguay Uruguay / Claro 16.589 million
• United States Includes Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands / TracFone Wireless 11.192 million
• Guatemala Nicaragua El Salvador Honduras Panama / Central America Claro 9.158 million
• Ecuador / Porta 8.304 million
• Perú / Claro 7.178 million
• Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica / Caribbean Claro 4.809 million
• Chile / Claro 3.002 million

• Global Wireless Customers 182.724 million

América Móvil Wireless Technology by Country

South America

• CDMA ^{(800/1900MHZ)}, GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(850/1900MHZ)}, UMTS/HSDPA ^{(850/1900MHZ)} _{first UMTS live by América Móvil}
• TDMA ^(800MHZ), GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(900/1800MHZ)}, UMTS/HSDPA ^{(850/2100MHZ)}
• TDMA ^(800MHZ), GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(850/1900MHZ)}, UMTS/HSDPA ^{(850MHZ soon 1900)}
• TDMA ^(800MHZ), GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(850MHZ soon 1900)}, UMTS/HSDPA ^{(850MHZ soon 1900)}
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(850/1900MHZ)}, UMTS/HSDPA ^{(850MHZ soon 1900)}
• CDMA ^(1900MHZ), GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(850/1900MHZ)}, UMTS/HSDPA ^{(850MHZ soon 1900)}
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^(1900MHZ), UMTS/HSDPA ^(1900MHZ)
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^(1900MHZ), UMTS/HSDPA ^(1900MHZ)

Caribbean

• CDMA ^{(800/1900MHZ)}, GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(850/1900MHZ)}, UMTS/HSDPA ^{(850MHZ soon 1900)}
• CDMA ^{(800/1900MHZ)}, GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(850/1900MHZ)}, UMTS/HSDPA ^{(850MHZ soon 1900)}
• CDMA ^(800MHZ), GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^(850MHZ), UMTS/HSDPA ^(850MHZ)

Central America

• CDMA ^(1900MHZ), GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(900/1900MHZ)}, UMTS/HSPA ^(1900MHZ) _{first HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) live by América Móvil}
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^(1900MHZ), UMTS/HSDPA ^(1900MHZ)
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^(1900MHZ), UMTS/HSDPA ^(1900MHZ)
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^(1900MHZ), UMTS/HSDPA ^(850MHZ)
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^(1900MHZ), UMTS/HSDPA ^(850MHZ)

North America

• United States CDMA ^{(800/1900MHZ)}, GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(850/1900MHZ)}
• Mexico TDMA ^(800MHZ), GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(850/1900MHZ)}, UMTS/HSDPA ^{(850MHZ soon 1900)}

External links

• América Móvil homepage

Footnotes and references

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