In 1990 the His company was floated as a public company, with share placements initially in Mexico and then worldwide. Later in 1990 he acted in concert with France Telecoms and Southwestern Bell Corporation in order to buy landlines telephony company from the Mexican government. By 2006, 90 percent of the telephone lines in Mexico are operated by The company he bought, whilst his mobile telephony company, operates almost eighty percent of all the country's cellphones. It was also at this time that he had heart surgery and subsequently passed on much of the day-to-day involvement in the businesses to his children and their spouses. In 2000 also saw a venture with Microsoft which led to the start of the Spanish T1msn portal, later renamed ProdigyMSN. Who ?
A-Carlos Slim