{"id":47084,"date":"2013-10-05T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T08:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=47084"},"modified":"2013-10-05T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T08:26:52","slug":"richest-people-in-telecoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/47084\/richest-people-in-telecoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Richest people in telecoms"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK international phone call provider, DialToSave has listed the 10 richest telecoms executives in the world, with Am\u00e9rica M\u00f3vil boss, and world’s second richest man, Carlos Helu Slim ruling the roost.<\/p>\n

According to the site, Helu has amassed a personal wealth of US$73 billion, tied manily to his holding in Am\u00e9rica M\u00f3vil, worth US$36.3 billion.<\/p>\n

Am\u00e9rica M\u00f3vil has more than tripled its customer base since 2005, from 66 million customers in South America, to almost 252 million customers worldwide.<\/p>\n

Helu’s $73 billion fortune almost matched the combined fortune of the 9 other executives listed by DTS, which totals US$76.2 billion.<\/p>\n

Helu’s closest telecom rival is on of Russian teleco VimpelCom’s largest shareholders, Alfa group’s Mikhail Fridman, worth US$16.5 billion.Other Alfa group investors, Alexei Kuzmichev and Pyotr Aven rank as the 5th and 9th richest, with a US$8.2 billion and US$5.4 billion fortune, respectively<\/p>\n

VimpelCom is the 6th largest telecom company in the world, according to the report, with a market cap of US$19 billion, serving 214 million customers.<\/p>\n

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#<\/strong><\/td>\nName<\/strong><\/td>\nCompany<\/strong><\/td>\nWorth<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nCarlos Slim Helu<\/td>\nAm\u00e9rica M\u00f3vil<\/td>\n$73.0 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nMickail Fridman<\/td>\nVimpelCom<\/td>\n$16.5 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nAnanda Krishnan<\/td>\nMaxis<\/td>\n$11.7 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nMasayoshi Son<\/td>\nSprint Nextel<\/td>\n$9.1 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nAlexei Kuzmichev<\/td>\nVimpelCom<\/td>\n$8.2 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nSunil Mittal<\/td>\nBharti Airtel<\/td>\n$6.8 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nVladimir Yevtushenkov<\/td>\nMTS<\/td>\n$6.7 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nXavier Niel<\/td>\nFree Mobile<\/td>\n$6.6 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nPyotr Aven<\/td>\nVimpelCom<\/td>\n$5.4 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nDenis O’Brien<\/td>\nDigicel<\/td>\n$5.2 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

More details on the top 10 can be found on DialToSave’s web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Biggest tech companies in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tech\u2019s youngest billionaires<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Richest IT people in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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