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04/16/08

 

Vivo

 

Vivo is a joint venture of Telefónica Móviles and Portugal Telecom established in december 2002 from 7 cellular providers in the Bands A and B. These providers correspond to 5 companies listed in the stock exchange of São Paulo and New York: Telesp Celular Participações S.A., including Global Telecom; Tele Centro Oeste Participações S.A., including NBT; Tele Leste Celular Participações S.A.; Tele Sudeste Celular Participações S.A. and Celular CRT Participações S.A.

 

 

www.vivo.com.br

 

 

Vivo finished the joint venture reorganization in 2006 having the following structure:

 

 

Vivo's Coverage

 

 

Financial Economic Data

 

R$ Thousands 2005 2006 2007
Gross Revenue 15,837 15,455 17,644
Net Revenue 11,254 10,937 12,493
EBIDTA 3,024 2,597 3,133
EBITDA Margin 26.9% 23.7% 25.1%
Net (lost) Profit. (678) 16 (99)
Investments 2,227 2,121 1,919
Debt 4,156 3,553 2,579

Main indicators

 

Vivo 2005 2006 2007
Cell Phones (thousands)
29,805 29,053 33,484*
Net Adds .
(thousands)
965 328 4,430
Pre-Pay
80.7% 81.0% 81.3%
Monthly Churn 1.9% 2.5% 2.3%
SAC (R$)** 135 115 106
Employed 6,084 5,896 5,600

*11.2 millions with GSM technology

 

Important Facts

 

04/13/2003 Vivo is launched on the market
04/25/2003 Telesp Celular acquired the control of TCO (Tele Centro Oeste S.A.)
12/04/2005 Vivo announced the incorporation of Tele Leste Cel., Tele Sudeste Cel. and CRT by TCP. The incorporation was accomplished in 02/22/2006
05/02/2006 New fase of reorganization announced: with incorporation of the operators by Global Telecom.
07/20/2006 The Administrative Council of Vivo approved the construction of a network GSM/EDGE scalable to WCDMA, to be increased to its actual CDMA network, whoch will continue working and in expansion. The investment foreseen to the implantation of these network is R$ 1.080 thousands.
08/03/2007 Vivo announced the purchase of Telemig and Amazônia Celular
April/08 Vivo assume the control of Telemig Celular

 

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