Carlos Slim says Australia, Asia Pacific very important right now - World's richest man stresses need for wireless service in as part of Australia's NGN strategy

[Jose]

By Cynthia Koons, Dow Jones Newswires
Wednesday 29 September 2010

Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, said Wednesday that Australia
and the Asia-Pacific region are very important but drew back from
plans to make any investments in the region.

"We are not now doing anything but the potential of this country and
this region is now very important," Slim said in Sydney.

Slim, who owns a stake in the New York Times, is estimated to be worth
US$53.5 billion. He controls Telmex and Telnor, the fixed line and
mobile companies sold by the Mexican government - both have a market
share of at least 80%. He runs most of his business interests through
conglomerate Grupo Carso.

On the topic of Australia's proposed National Broadband Network, he
said the total cost sounded expensive to him and he emphasized the
need for wireless service availability.


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[Iconoclast]

Post by Jose
By Cynthia Koons, Dow Jones Newswires
Wednesday 29 September 2010
Carlos Slim, the world's (greediest) man, said Wednesday that Australia
and the Asia-Pacific region are very important . . . .

I'm sure Australia and "the Asia-Pacific region" are euphoric over
Carlos Slim's proclamation. Before he made his self-important,
pompous announcement, those regions were no doubt of little or no
"importance." Will Mr. Slim create a list of regions that are of no
importance?