Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Telecom Americas prepares new brand launch

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:45:18 -0400

Telecom Americas prepares new brand launch
April 10, 2003 4:32pm

Brazilian mobile consortium Telecom Americas, controlled by Mexico's America
Movil (NYSE: AMX), plans to launch a new brand next quarter to unite its five
operating subsidiaries Tess, ATL, Americel, Claro, and BSE, local news agency
Agencia Estado reported.
The brand launch will coincide with the
company's operations launch in greater Sao
Paulo, Telecom Americas CEO Carlos
Henrique Moreira was quoted as saying.

Telecom Americas bought three PCS licenses
in November 2002 in the states of Parana,
Santa Catarina, Bahia and Sergipe, as well as
the Sao Paulo metro area. The company has
already signed radio base station-sharing
agreements with Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM),
BCP and digital trunking operator Nextel.

But some market observers are still open to
the idea that Telecom Americas will opt to
acquire Sao Paulo-based mobile operator BCP
rather than using its licenses.

America Movil is the largest mobile operator in
Latin America in terms of subscribers. America Movil and Mexican fixed line
giant Telmex (NYSE: TMX)

form part of the business empire of Mexican magnate Carlos Slim
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