Telmex Raises Wages 4.4%, Bemoans Lack Of TV Permit
2011年4月19日 - 9:22AM
Dow Jones News
Mexico's biggest fixed-line phone company Telefonos de Mexico
SAB (TMX, TELMEX.MX) said Monday it reached agreement with the
Mexican telephone workers' union to raise wages by 4.4%.
The company, which is 59% owned by America Movil (AMX.MX, AMX),
cited its chief executive, Hector Slim Seade, as saying the
negotiations were carried out amid an "especially critical"
situation for the national telecommunications industry.
Slim Seade referred to Telmex's inability to offer television
service, since it's waiting for authorization from the government
while cable companies are already offering bundled television,
Internet and phone packages.
Mexico suffers a "lack of an inclusive convergence so that
everyone can offer all the services that technology allows," Slim
Seade added.
America Movil, controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, is
embroiled in a series of disputes with the country's main TV
broadcasters, Grupo Televisa SAB (TV, TLEVISA.MX) and TV Azteca SAB
(AZTECA.MX), as well as smaller phone operators, over mobile
interconnection rates.
Rivals have charged that Telmex's billing and marketing
agreement with satellite television provider Dish Mexico goes
beyond what is authorized by antitrust authorities. They also
charge that America Movil's rates for completing calls on its
network prohibit them from competing on final rates to users.
Slim's companies have countered with charges that Televisa, TV
Azteca and others manipulate the TV market to push advertising
rates up, and responds to criticism over phone rates with similar
arguments about current pay-TV charges. Each side rejects the
other's charges.
In the latest development in the battle over the communications
and television industries, America Movil said last Friday that its
local mobile unit, Telcel, has been fined $1 billion by the Federal
Competition Commission, or CFC, for alleged anticompetitive
practices, following an investigation started in late 2006 over
termination of calls on its network.
The company said it aims to use all available means of defense,
without giving further details. The CFC didn't respond Monday to a
request for comment.
Telcel is Mexico's largest mobile phone operator with about 70%
of the mobile subscribers. Other mobile operators are Spain's
Telefonica SA (TEF), NII Holdings Inc. (NIHD) unit Nextel Mexico,
and privately held Grupo Iusacell, in which Televisa has invested
$1.6 billion with plans to take a 50% stake. Iusacell is currently
owned by TV Azteca's controlling shareholder, Ricardo Salinas
Pliego.
-By Anthony Harrup, Dow Jones Newswires; (5255) 5890 5176;
anthony.harrup@dowjones.com
Telefonos DE Mexico SA DE CV Ser (NASDAQ:TFONY)
過去 株価チャート
から 5 2024 まで 6 2024
Telefonos DE Mexico SA DE CV Ser (NASDAQ:TFONY)
過去 株価チャート
から 6 2023 まで 6 2024