AT&T Mexico

The company was originally Iusacell, a Joint venture at a rate 50% each, between Grupo Salinas and Grupo Televisa,[4] however, on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, Cofetel temporarily refused to approve a merger between Televisa and Iusacell, with three votes against, for illegal damage to third parties and hindering competition for open and pay television. This refusal continued until 2012 with Televisa and TV Azteca against Grupo Carso. Eventually, the merger was accepted with different conditions, among which allowing any company advertising time without condition, prohibiting the staff of Grupo Televisa and Grupo Salinas from hindering a developing third television network, and if not achieved within two years, dismantle the merge. With 8.2 million users at the time, the company also offered local and long-distance service, as well as wireless and fiber optic Internet. Fiber is available only in some neighborhoods of Mexico City and the states of Jalisco and Nuevo León. These services are offered under the brand Iusatel, messaging services (SMS, MMS and email), mobile TV and mobile broadband (with your brand BAM). On Friday November 7, 2014 the US company AT&T announced the acquisition of Iusacell for 2,500 million, including debt.

The company provides cellular services reaching about 90% of Mexico's population, including Mexico City and received more licenses to cover the remaining regions in early 2005. It has more than 5.4 million subscribers (68.6% are prepaid). The company also offers local and long-distance telephony, messaging services, mobile television and wireless broadband services (BAM).

Bell Atlantic (now Verizon Communications) and Vodafone Group together acquired 74.5% of the company in 2001 from the Peralta family, which founded Iusacell in 1987. But following Iusacell's default on debts, the two companies in 2003 sold their stake to Ricardo Salinas Pliego's Movil@ccess in a deal valued at $7.4 billion.

Former logo of Iusacell

In November 2014, AT&T announced it would acquire the Mexican wireless company Iusacell for US$2.5 billion from Grupo Salinas.[7] The price includes $800 million in debt.[7] Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T would acquire all of Iusacell wireless properties, including licenses, network assets, retail stores and approximately 8.6 million subscribers. The purchase was completed on January 16, 2015.[8] On January 30, 2015, AT&T announced the purchase of Nextel Mexico for $1,875 million to NII Holdings, this excluding financial debts. The operation was completed and approved by the Federal Telecommunications Institute in Mexico and the Bankruptcy Court District of New York in US on April 30, 2015.[9] AT&T launched several new plans on August 24, 2015 under the AT&T brand and will begin renaming Iusacell and Nextel stores by the end of the year in a process that is expected to be completed by the end of 2016. AT&T's recently announced that it plans to invest an additional $3 billion in Mexico through 2018 to expand its high-speed mobile broadband coverage to 100 million people, The company currently holds the largest amount of spectrum in the country. While gradually moving the Nextel and Iusacell brands to AT&T premium services, AT&T intends to keep the Unefon brand, which was part of Iusacell, for low-end prepaid users.[10]

• AT&T Inc., parent company
• AT&T Mobility, United States wireless service provider owned by parent company
• Sky México, television provider partially owned by AT&T
• Telcel, largest competitor
• Movistar, largest AT&T Mexico MVNO[15]
• Unefón, prepaid arm of AT&T Mexico

• Iusacell at hoovers.com

• Company site ATT.com.mx (in Spanish)