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GVT is controlled by GVT (Holland), company established by financial investors, including Egaly Group (37.1%), Magnum Telecom (21.9%), IDB (16.5%), Discount Investment Corporation (16.5%), Quillon (6.7%) and others.
It has been negotiating its shares in the new market of Bovespa ( São Paulo Stock Exchange) in 02/15/07.
GVT has Local, LDN and LDI service authorization to the whole Brazil ( Regions I, II and III). It is the mirror company to Region II.
In February 2007 GVT was in operation in 61 cities of Region II and in the metropolitan areas of São Paulo (11), Rio de Janeiro(21) and Belo Horizonte (31), total of 64 cities in National territory.
In Sept/07 GVT announced the operation in Belo Horizonte with an initial offer of 30 thousand voice lines and 13 thousand ADSL accesses.
In Dec/07 GVT acquired Geodex, company that has its own network with more than 11 thousand km of optical fiber based on SDH and DWDM technologies. GVT available R$ 74.6 millions for the acquisition of shareholding control, and others around R$ 33.7 millions (considering the intire balance of Geodex's cash in the transaction) for the payment of obligations gotten by the acquired company.

Operator's Site: GVT
Operational Performance
| Thousands |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
| Acesses in service |
491 |
594 |
729 |
952 |
924 |
| ADSL* |
9.4 |
21.2 |
65.8 |
137.1 |
245.7 |
| VOIP subscribers* |
- |
- |
5.6 |
35.4 |
73.6 |
| Employed |
1.8 |
2.0 |
- |
2.67 |
- |
* included in accesses in service
The Internet provider POP had 1,040,200 active users in 12/31/2006 and VONO (IP telephony) 24,978 pay users.
Consult: VoIP in GVT
Financial Economic Performance
| R$ Thousands |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
| Gross Revenue |
565 |
819 |
1,004 |
1,200 |
1,535 |
| Net Revenue |
380 |
542 |
654 |
768 |
981 |
| EBITDA |
51.5 |
128.9 |
189.8 |
255.6 |
358.1 |
| EBITDA Margin |
13.6% |
23.8% |
29.0% |
33.3% |
36.5% |
| Net (loss) Profit |
(2,1) |
(74,4) |
124,3 |
(72) |
(59) |
| Investments |
39.6 |
137.5 |
141.6 |
190.5 |
566.0 |
Net Revenue
| R$ Thousands |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
| Fixed Telephony |
308.5 |
434.8 |
515.2 |
588.1 |
716.4 |
| Local Service |
205.9 |
289.8 |
358.2 |
422.8 |
516 |
| Long distance |
45.9 |
98 |
107.3 |
121.2 |
147.5 |
| Network Use |
56.7 |
47 |
49.7 |
44.0 |
53.0 |
| Dato for companies |
12.2 |
18.3 |
27.1 |
34.2 |
47.5 |
| Internet |
59 |
89.2 |
109.6 |
131.9 |
190.8 |
| Broad Band |
4.5 |
13.9 |
32.2 |
61.9 |
128.3 |
| ISP |
54.5 |
75.3 |
77.4 |
70.0 |
62.5 |
| VoIP |
0 |
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2,2 |
14,3 |
25.9 |
| Net Revenue |
379.7 |
542.3 |
654.1 |
768.5 |
980.7 |
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