América Móvil
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| América Móvil, SAB de CV | |
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| Type | Public (NYSE: AMX, BMV: AMX, NASDAQ: AMOV ) |
| Founded | Mexico City, Mexico (2000) |
| Headquarters | México, DF, Mexico  |
| Key people | Carlos Slim Helú, chairman Daniel Hajj Aboumrad, General Manager Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo, CFO |
| Products | Wireless telephone |
| Revenue | ▲ $104,7 billion USD (2007) |
| Employees | 41,000 (2007) |
| Website | Americamovil.com |
América Móvil (NYSE: AMX, BMV: AMX, NASDAQ: AMOV) is the fifth largest mobile network operator and the largest corporation in Latin America, and a Fortune 500 company. It is a Mexican publicly traded wireless communications company and provides services to over 152 million wireless subscribers in the Americas, primarily in Latin America and the Caribbean as of March 2007. The company has been a venture of Carlos Slim Helú, who was the richest person in the world on 2007 according to Mexican financial wealth with an estimated fortune of US$67.8 billion.[1] It was ranked the number 1 Information Technology company in 2005 by the Business Week magazine [2].
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 80 per cent. In the United States, it operates under the trademark TracFone, and claims to be the leading national pre-paid wireless service. Trademarks elsewhere include Claro in Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, 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.
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[edit] América Móvil Global Wireless Customers
As of December 2007 [4],
- México / Telcel 50.011 million
Brazil / Claro 30.228 million
Colombia / Comcel Colombia 22.335 million
Argentina / Claro 12.927 million
Paraguay 
Uruguay / Claro 9.618 million
United States Includes Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands / TracFone Wireless 9.514 million & Claro
Guatemala 
Nicaragua 
El Salvador 
Honduras / Central America Claro 8.157 million
Ecuador / Porta 9.648 million
Perú / Claro 5.455 million
Puerto Rico 
Dominican Republic 
Jamaica / Caribbean Claro and Mi Phone 3.496 million
Chile / Claro 2.672 million
- Global Wireless Customers 153.422 million
[edit] External links
[edit] External links for América Móvil brands
[edit] Claro brand in South America
- Claro Argentina (Spanish)
- Claro Brazil (Portuguese)
- Claro Peru (Spanish)
- Claro Chile (Spanish)
- Claro Paraguay (Spanish)
- Claro Uruguay (Spanish)
[edit] Claro brand in the Caribbean
- Claro Puerto Rico (Spanish)|(English)
- Claro Dominican Republic (Spanish)
[edit] Claro brand in Central America
- Claro Guatemala (Spanish)
- Claro El Salvador (Spanish)
- Claro Honduras (Spanish)
- Claro Nicaragua (Spanish)
[edit] Other regional brands
- TracFone United States (English)|(Spanish)
- Net10 United States (English)|(Spanish)
- Comcel Colombia (Spanish)
- Porta Ecuador (Spanish)
- Telcel México (Spanish)
- MiPhone Jamaica (English)
[edit] Footnotes and references
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