Televisa looking to purchase Nextel Mexico.
January 10, 2010
According to TelecomPaper, Mexican media group Televisa has requested the antitrust agency CFC’s approval to acquire a stake in the local unit of mobile operator NII Holdings. The Federal Competition Commission has been notified by both companies of their intention to undertake this acquisition, an unnamed person within the FCC told Dow Jones Newswires. According to the same source, the CFC has 30 days to approve or deny the acquisition. NII Holdings, which operates in Latin America under the Nextel brand name, had around 2.9 million customers in Mexico at the end of September 2009, and a mobile market share of 3.6 percent.
Courtesy of http://www.telecompaper.com
