América Móvil

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.

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
• 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 3.496 million
• Chile / Claro 2.672 million

• Global Wireless Customers 153.422 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)

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)}