América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V

América Móvil logo
Type	Sociedad Anónima Bursátil de Capital Variable
Traded as	BMV: AMX NYSE: AMX NASDAQ: AMOV BMAD: AMXL
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Mexico City, Mexico
Area served	South America/North America
Key people	Patrick Slim, (Chairman) Daniel Hajj Aboumrad, (CEO)
Products	Fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television, IT and network services
Revenue	US$ 49.282 billion (2010)[1]
Operating income	US$ 12.349 billion (2010)[1]
Net income	US$ 8.018 billion (2010)[1]
Total assets	US$ 71.079 billion (2010)[1]
Total equity	US$ 24.943 billion (2010)[1]
Employees	148,058 (2011)
Subsidiaries	Telmex, Claro, Telcel, TracFone Wireless
Website	www.americamovil.com

América Móvil (BMV: AMX / NYSE: AMX / NASDAQ: AMOV / BMAD: AMXL) is a Mexican telecommunication company headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is the fifth largest mobile network operator in terms of equity subscribers and one of the largest corporations in the world. América Móvil is a Fortune 500 company. A venture of Carlos Slim, América Móvil provides services to 246 million mobile subscribers in 18 countries.^[2]

Company information[link]

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 percent. In the United States, it operates under the trademarks TracFone, Net10, and Straight Talk, and is the leading national pre-paid wireless service. It operates in many countries in the Caribbean and Latin America such as Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Puerto Rico; Comcel Colombia in Colombia; and Porta in Ecuador. In Brazil it operates the trademark Claro.

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]}

As of December 2010, the company was one of the top four telecommunications companies in the world and boasted 290,000 kilometres of fiber optic cable, making it the largest in infrastructure.^[4]

Telmex acquisition[link]

In January 2010, it made an offer to buy Carso Telecom and Telmex International in order to better compete against [[Spain's Telefonica. The acquisition was approved by the CFC (Comisión Federal de Competencia) Antitrust Office in Mexico on February 11, 2010.

Spanish Móvil was once the mobile arm of Telmex, but since 2001 América Móvil was split off and grew bigger than the former parent company.^[5]

América Móvil global wireless customers[link]

As of January 2010:^[6]

• Mexico - Telcel 66.9 million (August 2011)
• Brazil - Claro 46.902 million
• Colombia - Comcel 28.382 million
• Argentina Paraguay Uruguay - Claro 19.157 million
• United States Includes Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands - TracFone Wireless (Q4-2010) 17.7 million
• Guatemala Nicaragua El Salvador Honduras Panama - Central America Claro 10.043 million
• Ecuador - Claro 10.060 million
• Perú - Claro 9.076 million
• Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica - Caribbean Claro 6.424 million
• Chile - Claro 4.048 million

• Global Wireless Customers 211,296,669

América Móvil in the World[link]

América Móvil in the World

América Móvil Wireless Technology by Country[link]

South America[link]

• CDMA ^{(800/1900MHZ)}, GSM/GPRS/EDGE ^{(850/1900MHZ)}, UMTS/HSDPA ^{(850/1900MHZ)} _{first UMTS live by América Móvil}
• phalstien ^(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[link]

• 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[link]

• 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[link]

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

See also[link]

	Mexico portal
	Companies portal

• NII Holdings

External links[link]

• América Móvil homepage

References[link]

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