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 Technology News | February 2007 
Cellphones Silent as Mexico's Biggest Network Fails
 Associated Press
| | Mexican tycoon, Carlos Slim listens to a question during the Reuters Summit in Mexico City in this file photo from March 24, 2006. Millions of Mexicans had their cellphone conversations put on hold for much of Tuesday after a wireless network belonging to the world's third richest man, Slim, temporarily crashed. (Andrew Winning/Reuters) |
Millions of Mexicans had their cellphone conversations put on hold for much of Tuesday after a wireless network belonging to the world's third richest man, tycoon Carlos Slim, temporarily crashed.
A technical fault in western Mexico City saturated the Telcel cellphone network, Mexico's largest and owned by Slim's telecommunications giant America Movil, the company said on Tuesday.
"When part of the network loses service, others back it up," said America Movil spokeswoman Patricia Ramirez. "But there was a serious saturation problem and it started to affect other parts of the city."
Telcel has 40 million users across the country. Worst affected were those in the vast capital and its surroundings, where most of the company's customers are located. Service began returning hours later and was 90 percent functional by late afternoon, Ramirez said.
America Movil controls about 70 percent of Mexico's cellphone market and also has operations across Latin America and in the United States. |
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