Last week Irish billionaire Dennis O'Brien announced his company Digicel was purchasing the Caribbean arm of Bouygues Telecom . [1] This week Mexican billionnaire Carlos Slim announces he is purchasing three Caribbean and Latin-American subsidiaries of Verizon, an American telecom, writes ( [2]FR) InternetRapide.com. The Verizon subsidiaries to be purchased by Slim's Telmex and America Movil are located in the DR, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
Caribbean: Billionaires Investing in Local Telecoms
· Written by Alice Backer
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