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América Móvil, SAB de CV
Company typePublic (NYSE: AMX, BMV: AMX, Nasdaq: AMOV )
FoundedMexico City, Mexico (2000)
HeadquartersMéxico, DF, Mexico Mexico
Key people
Patrick Slim, chairman
Daniel Hajj Aboumrad, General Manager
Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo, CFO
ProductsWireless telephone
RevenueIncrease $28,5 billion USD (2007)
167,784,000,000 Mexican peso (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
80,790,000,000 Mexican peso (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
Total assets1,564,186,000,000 Mexican peso (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
Number of employees
41,000 (2007)
WebsiteAmericamovil.com

América Móvil (NYSE: AMX, BMV: AMX, Nasdaq: AMOV) is a holding company forming the third 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.[2] It was ranked the number 1 Information Technology company in 2005 by the Business Week magazine.[3]

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.[4]. 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],

  • Global Wireless Customers 182.724 million

América Móvil Wireless Technology by Country

South America

Caribbean

Central America

North America

Footnotes and references

  1. ^ America Movil S.A.B de C.V. (ADR)
  2. ^ AMÉRICA MÓVIL’S FOURTH QUARTER OF 2008 FINANCIAL AND OPERATING REPORT
  3. ^ The Information Technology 100: América Móvil
  4. ^ AMX buys Jamaican operator Oceanic Digital
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