A company statement from Argentina’s second-placed cellco CTI Móvil, reported by BNamericas, said that 2006’s total investment was USD253 million, which bought (amongst other things) 503 new network antennas, 13 ‘customer care centres’ and a USD23.5 million operations centre in Córdoba province. CTI, part of the Mexican América Móvil group, now operates a GSM network comprising 2,857 base stations nationwide, with coverage in each of the 23 provincias, and according to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms database had a subscriber base of just over nine million at the end of the third quarter 2006, about a million behind market leader Movistar, part of the Spanish Telefónica empire. The statement also revealed that CTI intends to invest USD268 million on infrastructure during 2007, mainly on 3G.