Mexican incumbent America Movil (AMX) has agreed to share its passive infrastructure with Telecomunicaciones 360, a unit of Ricardo Salinas’ retail business Grupo Elektra, in its second MVNO deal in a week.
On 19 March, local fixed-line…
Mexican incumbent America Movil (AMX) has agreed to share its passive infrastructure with Telecomunicaciones 360, a unit of Ricardo Salinas’ retail business Grupo Elektra, in its second MVNO deal in a week.
On 19 March, local fixed-line operator Axtel announced that it would become the country’s first MVNO using America Movil-owned Telcel’s network.
Axtel also inked a number of infrastructure agreements with number three carrier Iusacell, which Salinas sold to US telco AT&T in January for US$2.5bn.
The agreements follow the settlement of interconnection-related disputes between the parties and are part of wide-ranging regulatory reforms aimed at curbing the incumbent’s dominant position.
Local triple-play operator Megacable is also looking to rent airtime and data from Carlos Slim’s America Movil to launch its own MVNO by 2016.