Iusacell
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Iusacell Grupo Iusacell is Mexico's #4 mobile operator. The company provides cellular services reaching about 90% of Mexico's population, including Mexico City and received more licenses to cover the remaining regions in early 2005. It has 1.8 million subscribers (77% are prepaid). The company also offers local and long-distance telephony, paging, and data transport services. Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group together acquired 74% of the company in 2001 from the Peralta family, which founded Iusacell in 1989. But following Iusacell's default on debts, the two companies in 2003 sold their stake to Ricardo Salinas Pliego's Movil@ccess in a deal valued at $7.4 million.
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- (Spanish) Company site
- Profile at Grupo Salinas
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Corporate Directors: Joaquín Arrangoiz | Francisco Borrego | Tristán Canales | Luis J. Echarte | Diego Foyo | Gustavo Guzmán | Alfredo Honsberg | Gustavo Lacroix | Martín Luna | Armando Melgar | Jorge Mendoza | Esteban Moctezuma | Ernesto Nava | Luis Niño de Rivera | Pedro Padilla | Tim Parsa | Ricardo Salinas Pliego | Carlos Septién | Mario San Román | Javier Sarro | Adrian Steckel | José Ignacio Suárez | Gustavo Vega |
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Assets: Afore Azteca | Azteca América | Banco Azteca | Grupo Elektra | Iusacell | Movil@ccess | Seguros Azteca | todito.com | Telecosmo | TV Azteca | Unefon | Fundación Azteca | |
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Annual Revenue: 3.7 billion USD FY 2005) | Employees: 34,000 | Website: www.gruposalinas.com |
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