THE PHONE KING OF LATIN AMERICA?

摘要

Mexican billion-aire Carlos Slim is determined to become the dominant telecommunications provider in Latin America. On Mar. 15, he moved closer to that goal when Tele-fonos de Mexico (Telmex), the Mexican phone giant he controls, offered $360 million for bankrupt MCI's 52% share of Brazil's top long-distance operator, Em-bratel. That move came just three weeks after Slim acquired AT&T Latin America Corp.'s regional assets for $207 million. And he isn't done yet. "Any telecommunications asset that has reasonable, appropriate conditions interests me," Slim recently told BusinessWeek.