Sociedad Anónima Bursátil de Capital Variable | |
Traded as | : AMX : AMX NASDAQ: AMOV BMAD: AMXL |
Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | 2000 |
Headquarters | Plaza Carso, Mexico City, Mexico |
Area served
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South America, North America, Europe |
Key people
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Carlos Slim Helú, (Chairman) Daniel Hajj Aboumrad, (CEO) Iran Campbell Jr, (General Manager) |
Products | Fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television, IT and network services |
Revenue | US$ 59.3 billion (2012) |
US$ 12.4 billion (2012) | |
US$ 7.1 billion (2012) | |
Number of employees
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158,694 |
Subsidiaries | Claro, Telmex, NET, Embratel, Claro TV, NuestraVisión, Telcel, TracFone Wireless, Page Plus Cellular. |
Website | www |
América Móvil is a Mexican telecommunications corporation headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is the fourth largest mobile network operator in terms of equity subscribers and one of the largest corporations in the world. América Móvil is a Forbes Global 2000 company. A venture of Carlos Slim, América Móvil provides services to 289.4 million wireless subscribers, 34.3 million landlines, 22.6 million broadband accesses and 21.5 million PayTV units as of the end of 2014.
The company's world headquarters are located in Mexico City, Mexico. Its Mexican subsidiary Telcel is the largest mobile operator in that country, commanding a market share in excess of 70%. The company operates under its Claro subsidiaries in many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, these include Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Colombia and Ecuador. In Brazil it also operates Claro and other subsidiary Embratel. It owns 30% of KPN Telecom in the Netherlands and has done a bid on 100% of the shares. The group has also fully consolidated the Telekom Austria Group into its financial reporting, owning 59.7% of its shares and using the Austrian operator to expand América Móvil's European network.