Mexican Billionaire Donates Laptops

Regal Slim said that he does not care if he is the worlds richest people, and promised to donate hundreds of thousands of laptop computers to Mexican children.

Mexican telecommunications tycoon pledged Thursday to donate 250,000 low-cost laptops to children in the end of this year and as many as 1 million people in 2008, said that the "digital education", the key Mexico of the poor.

Small pits are listed Forbes as the worlds second largest holder of rich men 53 billion US dollars (euro38.79 billion), but some financial analysts said that he may have been beyond Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates as the worlds richest.

On the foreign correspondents Thursday, small pits that ranked significance not to him.

"This is the water off ducks back to me," slimming said. "I do not know if this [number] is correct, and if I was the first time, 20 or 2000. It does not matter, its all the same. " "I think the most important thing is to see a professional or business activities is not consistent with personal or family life," he said.

He also said that there was no interest in the competition and Gates in the charity cause, and expressed the hope that their efforts will be "mutually reinforcing." Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has channels its efforts into reducing the struggle against hunger and disease in developing countries.

Small pits that he wants to focus on building a special pre-school, computer accessories, and the surrender of health care.

He said that he would invest about 70 million US dollars (euro51 million), this year the low-cost laptop. With an estimated cost of 250 US dollars (euro183) to 300 US dollars (euro220) per machine, the fine will have to input 300 million US dollars (euro220 million), to reach a target of 10,000 US dollars. He predicted that, but at a cost of machinery will be further decline.

Small pits, which controls Mexicos largest fixed-line telephone company, telefonos Germany, Mexico, or Telmex, the plan will be the first notebook computer in the library and the schools, which would ultimately enable them Outright off to students.

"The scheme in the public library, they will be loaned to them, like books," he said, adding that his company will help to create a wireless network for connecting machines.

He said that in four years time, he wants to build about 100 "early stimulation," the pre-primary schools, training for poor children at a young age, in mathematics, languages and computers.

He said that the world economy is experiencing the "stage victory Chonghun the minds of the world," the simple credit, and Latin America should take advantage of this investment in infrastructure.

Small pits, which have no contradiction between this and his role as a businessman - in which he has been criticized for holding near-monopoly control of the telephone market - and philanthropist.

"The best investment one can make is to reduce poverty," he said, taking note of affluent citizens better consumers.