Mexican Carrier America Movil to Use Firefox Manuel Baigorri, Olga Kharif and Cornelius Rahn - Bloomberg News
go to original March 5, 2013

America Movil, the wireless carrier controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, predicts a new smartphone running Mozilla’s Firefox operating system will help boost revenue and profit.

“The opportunities for growth are huge” as only 15 percent of the 261.6 million wireless customers of Mexico City-based America Movil use smartphones, Chief Marketing Officer Marco Quatorze said last week in an interview in Barcelona. The highest adoption rates will come from Peru and Central America, he said.

In addition to America Movil, more than a dozen other wireless carriers including Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom and Sprint Nextel are supporting an open mobile operating system by Mozilla to make a range of cheaper smartphones to counter Google’s dominance in the market with Android. Firefox-based devices may arrive as early as the second quarter, said Brendan Eich, Mozilla’s chief technology officer.

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