America Movil said on Wednesday first-quarter profit fell more than 40 percent from a year ago, as mobile competition from AT&T Inc intensified in Mexico and it started paying rent on cell towers after a sweeping regulatory overhaul.
The 2013 overhaul was aimed at curbing America Movil's 70 percent market share in Mexico by forcing it to share cell towers and other equipment with rivals, and letting them connect calls to its network for free.
The company, which had long dominated Latin American telecommunications, was pressured to spin off its cell towers in 2015 into a new . . .
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