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A group of 10 new companies aiming to enter or increase their presence in the market estimate they have spent or committed some $6 billion for investment in Argentina this year.
These companies include BellSouth Corp. subsidiary Movicom, Impsat Fiber Networks Inc. , Nextel Communications Inc. , VeloCom Inc., Comsat, PSINet , MetroRed, IPlan NetworksTechtel and GTE Corp. unit CTI Movil. GTE recently merged with Verizon Communications . hoovershbn.hoovers.com
According to a study made by the Research division of the consultancy agency Convergencia, investment in telecoms will reach US$10,700mil in the next three years, and half of this will be invested by Telefonica and Telecom. The other main investors are the American companies Movicom-Bell South and GTE, main shareholder of CTI, in which also the Clarin group participates. The deregulation decree was going to besigned by the President Fernando de la Rua today, but it was postponed. Other investors are AT&T Latinoamerica and the HMT&F group, who are going to invest US$500mil each. MetroRed (company of the Fidelity Investments fund), Iplan Networks, Techtel (of the Techint group), Impsat (of the Pescarmona group), Comsat, Nextel, VeloCom and PsiNet are the other companies who are already installed. Their main activity will be in the corporate sector, which turns over US$1500mil annually. investorpackages.com |