AMX : America Movil S.A.B de C.V
Sector: Services > Industry: Communications Services
America Movil S.A.B. DE K.V.. (America Movil), radio communications service provider in Latin America. On 31 December 2008, it had 182.7 million subscribers in 17 countries. Via Radiomovil Dipsa, S.A. de K.W., which works under the name, Telcel, Company, provides mobile telecommunications service in all nine areas in Mexico. On 31 December 2008, Telcel had 56.4 million subscribers in Mexico. The company operates in Brazil through its subsidiaries, Claro SA and America SA. (Americel), under the combined brand name Claro. Its network covers the main cities in Brazil, including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The company provides wireless services in Argentina, Парагвае, Uruguay and Chile. America Movil provides wireless services in Colombia under the Comcel brand. It also provides fixed line and wireless services in Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama. Its Unleashed Branch of the States, Radio TracFone Inc. (Tracfone), is engaged in the sale and distribution of prepaid wireless services and cordless phones throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and the Unleashed States Virgin Islands. In August 2008, Company acquired 100% interest in Estesa Holding Corporation.
On 31 December 2008, its branches had 9.2 million wireless subscribers and more than 2.2 million fixed line subscribers in Central America. Company Dominican de Telefono, C. cash on delivery A. (Codetel) is a telecommunications service provider in the Dominican Republic with 3.9 millions of wireless subscribers, 0.8 millions of fixed line subscribers and 0.2 millions of broadband subscribers to 31 December 2008. It provides fixed line and broadband services in the Dominican Republic under the Codetel brand and wireless services under the Claro brand. Telecommunications de Puerto Rico, Inc. (PLEASE), through its branches, is a telecommunications service provider in Puerto Rico with approximately 0.8 millions of fixed line subscribers and 0.7 millions of wireless subscribers to 31 December 2008. The company provides fixed line and broadband services in Puerto Rico under the oil tax and wireless services under the Claro brand. Ocean Digital Jamaica, Ограниченная (Океанский), provides radio and value-added services throughout Jamaica, with 0.2 millions of wireless subscribers to 31 December 2008.
Voice services
The company offers voice services under a variety of rate plans. Rate plans or postpaid, where the customer is billed monthly during the previous month, or prepaid, where the customer pays in advance for a specified amount of use for a specified period. Telkel postpaid plans include a monthly fee, which usually includes many minutes of use and short text messages, which are included in the monthly service fee; usage fee, for use in excess of a specified number of minutes or short text messages, included in the monthly fee, and additional payments, including, charges for data services, voicemail and general information.
Data services
The company offers two-way short message service (SMS) to her clients as part of her value-added services. Through arrangements with other mobile operators, Telcel offers its customers the ability to send and receive short messages to and from users of other airlines' networks throughout Mexico. Via Telcel Door Ideas Telcel offers its customers mobile entertainment services, including SMS, multimedia messaging service (MMS), электронная почта, news and personalized downloads, such as ring tones and splash screens. Telcel offers wireless application protocol (WAP), including email, data and information services and electronic trade transactions.
Telcel offers its customers the ability to send and receive short messages to and from Mexico Nextel users, trunking airlines in mexico. Telcel started offering multimedia messaging service (MMS) through the global mobile communications system (GSM) technology and prepaid customers with postage paid in March 2003. Telcel customers can also send and receive multimedia messages to and from users of other Mexican airlines' networks. It offers data services over its GSM network, including high speed circuit breaker data (HSCSD), packet breaker data via shared packet radio services (GPRS), increased data rates for GSM development (КРАЙ), universal mobile telecommunication systems (UMTS) and high speed data transmission packet access (HSDPA).
Push to talk services
Telcel offers push-to-talk services (two way half double voice service) over his GSM network. Postpaid customers can use the push to talk over cellular (PORT OF VESSEL), to communicate with other Telcel customers, who subscribe to this service through Mexico free of charge in addition to a fixed monthly fee.
Ofikina Movil Telkel
Oficina Movil enables Telcel customers to access and manage personal email information, such as calendars and notebooks, through their handsets. Through alliances with companies, such as Blackberry and Windows Mobile, Telcel customers can manage multiple email accounts and view and edit email attachments. Telcel also offers data coverage in Mexico and other countries, where it has roaming conventions. Telcel offers services, who focus on e-commerce, such as services, which allow customers to recharge time on the air remotely, share airtime with other prepaid dressers and perform banking from their mobiles.
Telcel offers many products to complement its wireless service, including handsets and accessories, such as chargers, headphones, belt clips and batteries. As part of his prepaid service offer, Telcel provides new customers with a Friend's Kit, which includes airtime, telephone receiver, charger and other accessories. For prepaid clients, which owns the GSM handsets, Telcel also offers Chip Friend, which includes airtime and handset chip. New postpaid customers also receive the handset, charger and other welcome accessories, if they enter into a long-term contract with Telcel.
Interconnection
Telcel earns interconnection revenue from calls to any of its subscribers, that happen to another service provider. Telcel costs service provider, from whose network a requirement generates a relationship, charges over time Telkel network, used in connection with the requirement. Telkel has to pay interconnection fees for calls, made by her subscribers to customers of other service providers (mobile and stationary).
Roaming
Telcel offers international roaming services to its subscribers through cellular service provider networks, with which Telcel entered into international roaming agreements. Telcel also provides roaming services in Mexico to customers of Telkel's international roaming partners. Telkel entered approximately 421 GSM network agreement coverage. On 31 December 2008, Telkel commercially launched roaming GSM services, flooding 169 countries and GPRS services, flooding 123 countries for postpaid subscribers.
The company competes with Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de K.W., Телефоника, S.A. (Telephony Moviles), Nextel, Vivo, Telecommunications Italia, Мобильный (TEAM), Oi, Telecommunications Brasil, CTBC, Sercomtel, Personnel Telecommunications, Movistar, PC Entel, Telecel (International Milicom), Nucleus, Hola Paraguay (KDDI Corporation), Angel, Colombia Movil, Movistar Per, mobile phone, Telefonica de El Salvador, Digicel, Intelfon, Celtel, France Telecom (Апельсин), Tricom, Cable & Wireless Jamaica, AT&T, Столетие, Спринт, T-Mobile, Open Mobile, Centennial Wireline and Worldnet Communications.
