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06/22/2009

 

Cellular statistics in Brazil

 

In this page: Cellular statistics in Brazil, prepaid (%), cellulars per technology (GSM, CDMA, TDMA, AMPS) and per band. Source: Anatel.

Cell Phone statistics in Brazil

 

 

Total Cellulars (May/09): 157.5 million
Cellular Growth in May/09

Preliminary data released by Anatel indicates that Brazil closed May counting 157.5 million cellulars and density of 82.44 cell/100 inhab. May/09 net adds of 2,905 thousand cellulars overcame May/08 (2,816 thousand). Prepaid stake continues to grow and reached 81.75.

 

Note: Anatel adopted a new estimation for population which was published by IBGE, so now the cellular density is calculated based on this new number.

 

 

Cellulars in Apr/09

 

- May/08 Dec/08 Apr/09 May/09 (prel.)
Cellulars 130,558,360 150,641,403 154,596,643 157,501,813
Prepaid
80.95% 81.47% 81.60% 81.75%
Density
69.01 79.17 80.98 82.44
Month Growth 2,815,604 3,589,006 923,504 2,905,170
2.2% 2.40% 0.6% 1.9%
Year Growth 9,578,257 29,661,300 3,955,240 6,860,410
7.9% 24.52% 2.63% 4.55%
Growth in 1 year
25,467,825 29,661,300 26,853,887 26,943,453
24.23% 24.52% 21.02% 20.64%

Note: active cellular in the operator. Density calculated with IBGE'd population projection for the month.

 

 

Cellulars per Technology

 

Techn.
Dec.
2008
May 2009
Number of Cellulars
Month Growth
Year Growth
AMPS
11,546 6,417 0.00% -268 -44.42%
TDMA
1,153,580 498,818 0.32% -179,827 -56.76%
CDMA
12,732,287 10,540,394 6.69% -371,988 -17.22%
GSM
133,925,736 135,987,977 86.34% -2,056,170 1.54%
WCDMA
1,692,436 5,839,600 3.71% 4,405,384 245.04%
CDMA 2000
452,816 312,666 0.20% 62,913 -30.95%
Data Term.
673,002 4,315,941 2.74% 1,045,126 541.30%
Total 150,641,403 157,501,813 100% 2,905,170 4.55%

 

 

Cellulars per Band

 

Techn.
Dec.
2007
October 2008
Number of Cellulars
Month Growth
Year Growth
A
44,443,667 49,330,703 34.1% -125,949 11.0%
B
35,478,117 41,636,719 28.8% 824,104 17.4%
D
28,330,142 37,030,092 25.6% 1,969,354 30.7%
E
12,728,177 16,798,104 11.6% 1,465,761 32.0%
Total 120,980,103 144,795,618 100.0% 4,007,056 19.7%

 

 

 

 

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