TELCEL MEXICO AND TELEPHONE
Alberto Barranco / The Universal
In another chapter in the "war of the titans, the Federal Competition Commission opened an investigation against Telcel and Telefonica Mexico, that is, Movistar, for alleged monopolistic practices on interconnection to their networks.
The presumption of the complainants, in which the same funnel fitted subsidiaries of Grupo Televisa Ricardo Salinas of Salinas, in addition to Axtel, Avantel and Marcatel, talk of a possible collusion between firms one and two of the country and Latin America move to competition. We're talking
thus creating an unusual cartel among those on the paper were sworn enemies: the tycoon Carlos Slim and the chairman of Telefonica Mexico, a subsidiary of Telefonica of Spain, Francisco Gil Diaz.
The new chapter comes a few days before the unit headed by Eduardo Perez Motta will apply the mother of all fines Telcel, more than one billion dollars for alleged monopolistic practices in the same chapter.
The fulcrum of the complainants to talk of collusion between the firms would be the appointment as director of financial group Inbursa, the financial arm of the empire Slim, Fainé Isidro Casas, who works in parallel, as Vice President of Administration of the Telephone. Directors
crossed, then.
According to the complainants the practice "could have the effect of reducing competition, and that two or more directors share the same sector could agree more easily to take measures to reduce competition."
In the United States condemns the possibility Clayton Act, as the Agency for Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued rulings in which it notes that "cross-directors are an obvious source of collusion, since they allow the exchange of information between competitors. " Including Fainé
Casas endorse a report Inbursa financial group for 2009.
According to the complainant, about the same time America Movil, the company hemispheric magnate, withdrew from the general direction of its subsidiary Net Services to Francisco Valim, who was architect of a strategy to successfully compete against Telefonica of Spain Telefonica Mexico matrix.
Thereafter, the complaint says, slowed the war between hegemonic firms, though is still in the air a dependency resolution of a dispute between itself and Radiomóvil Dipsa Telefonica Mexico, the company that operates Telcel the other alleged practice monopoly on its undue displacement mode of competition.
Literally, the complaint states that Telcel set interconnection rates "significantly above the relevant costs incurred for providing that service, which increases its competitors with the costs of providing service to end users."
The Federal Competition Commission had previously issued an official of alleged liability against Telcel.
What is unheard of it is that last December the companies reached an agreement outside of the end point of procedure, to establish a tariff for calls their customers cross.
This was set at 95 cents a minute, with a commitment be reduced to 64 in 2014, representing a 120% beyond what had determined the Federal Communications Commission. The plaintiffs claim
letter by letter that it is curious that the English call "chose to accept an interconnection rate that inhibits excessive competition, in exchange for its Mexican subsidiary can afford to operate without having to resort to capital from its parent.
According to this, then, firms that had fought fiercely in the courts and fought every inch of the Latin American market, they became allies. The complaint included a research firm MandCode which states that companies do not attack in advertising, there are no comparative or aggressive messages. Neither price war.
The suit has a green light.
In a long meeting with the full Business Council last Friday, President Felipe Calderón avoided talking about his proposal, raised in New York, Petroleos Mexicanos to carry the stock markets via share placement, while insisting that scenarios assume it is urgent to "modernize" such as Petrobras of Brazil. However, he spoke of the impending issuance of public bonds.
The breakfast meeting with 80 members of the assembly lasted two hours, in a scenario that the government allowed four rounds of questions with three participants in each. The recurring theme, of course, was the insecurity, which allowed the president to reiterate his theories on police clearance, the sole command and goodness of its strategy.
offered in the way pressing the adoption of reforms of Homeland Security, State and Labor. Participants noted that the government was in excellent spirits. PEMEX ANOTHER
Where there are intimations of rebellion in the National Chamber of Cargo Transportation, whose president, Juan Carlos Muñoz Márquez, made a dark bargain with Petroleos Mexicanos to support a contract of carriage of oil to 154 companies the industry.
The problem is that they had to pay two million dollars, accordingly to cover the operating expenses of management.
We're talking about, apparently, for payment to smugglers who, accordingly, had been exterminated by the parastatal.
From another angle, the manager is charging them 10% "commission" to companies that are able to collect bills for retroactive payments of the parastatal, which dates back to 2009. We're talking hundreds of millions of pesos.
The public company had offered to update their rates on a quarterly basis since late 2009, making it only in the case of the tanker.
The claim, therefore, is the retroactive amount.
It also says that the post is used by the current president of the Canacar as political springboard to reach a deputation by the PAN in the next legislature, a district of Guanajuato. COCA-COLA
NOT KNOW
Although the subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company in Mexico convincingly argues that it met all its obligations in a timely manner, so that no unlawful conduct, investigating or prosecuting, said it was not notified until hours of any tax audit against them.
In parallel, the complainant argues that his exejecutivo Angel Alvarado Agüero, groundless and has initiated several legal actions against the company, already criminal, civil and labor, none of which have legal merit.
stocks, notes, have been presented for four years in succession, ie, at the conclusion of one in favor of the company has another. According
it, Alvarado is seeking a benefit not rightfully theirs.