América Móvil
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| Type | Public (NYSE: AMX, BMV: AMX, NASDAQ: AMOV ) |
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| 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]
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[edit] 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 trademark TracFone, 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]
[edit] 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
[edit] América Móvil Wireless Technology by Country
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
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