09/05/2012 | Printed Edition
Argentina ordered the Movistar unit of Spain's Telefónica to pay about 42 million dollars in compensation to clients for a massive mobile phone outage last month, government officials said yesterday. On April 2, Movistar customers were without service for several hours. The government said the company must pay 10 pesos (2.25 dollars) to each of its roughly 18 million users, plus a small fine of about six million pesos (1.4 million dollars) to the state.