Companies continue to abandon Argentine, regional markets

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Comsat International and Metrored this week joined the Argentine exodus that is shaking the Latin American telecommunications market. The trend began when Impsat was transferred to its creditors, continued with the loss of Verizon’s majority control in CTI and Nextel Communications’ in NII Holdings, and will likely continue with the sale of Telecom Argentina by Telecom Italia and France T