Mexico's Telmex Blames Spain's OHL For Service Interruption
December 01 2011 - 5:00PM
Dow Jones News
Mexican phone company Telefonos de Mexico SAB (TELMEX.MX) said
Thursday that workers of Spanish infrastructure company Obrascon
Huarte Lain SA (OHL.MC) cut through a fiber optic line during
construction work in Mexico City, leaving wireless phone company
Telcel without service in parts of the capital for several hours
Wednesday.
In a press release, Telmex said the cut in the line, in the
western part of the capital, affected Telcel and other customers.
Both Telmex and Telcel are units of America Movil SAB (AMX,
AMX.MX), the telecommunications company controlled by billionaire
Carlos Slim.
Telmex said that instead of reporting the damage to the line,
which is marked as being part of its network, OHL covered up the
rupture with steel sheets, "which made it difficult to locate the
cut in the fiber optic line and repair it." Telmex said it has
filed charges with authorities against OHL and Constructora
GAM.
No one at unit OHL Mexico SAB (OHLMEX.MX) offices in Mexico City
was available to comment. OHL Mexico is controlled by OHL
Concesiones.
OHL Mexico has a contract to build a second level on a stretch
of the Periferico thoroughfare in Mexico City.
Telmex and Telcel said the fiber-optic line was repaired
Wednesday evening.
-By Anthony Harrup, Dow Jones Newswires; (5255) 5980-5176,
anthony.harrup@dowjones.com
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