Weekly Newsletter

02/02/12 Newsletter 207

3G

3G in the World

3G technology overtook 1 billion accesses in the world

Vivo leads in three of the five biggest Brazilian Area Codes

Cellular Quality

4Q11 had the worse average of accomplished targets

Tariffs

Prices for Fixed-Mobile calls fell

Results 4Q11/2011

Record revenue of US$ 46.33 billion

Net loss of US$ 1,4 billion

Cell phone sales increased 14.7%

Cell phone sales dropped 9.5%

Cell Phones in the World

In 2011, Nokia sees Samsung get closer

Apple's sales jumped 128.2% in 4Q11

Smartphones

Smartphones represent 34% of the cell phones sold in 4Q11

Tablets

Tablets sales rocketed 270% in the year

Quality in Fixed Telephony

GVT hit 90.3% of the targets in 4Q11

IST

Index reached 5.43% in Dec/11

Results 4Q11/2011

Fixed accesses dropped 7.2%

Wireless

Churn hit 1.23%

Net loss reached US$ 6.628 million in 4Q11

Wireless

Revenue increased 10.0%

Number of subscribers jumped 139.4%

United States

Mobile Telephony

AT&T's accesses had the biggest growth in comparison with Verizon

Fixed Telephony

Verizon and AT&T 's accesses fall

Broadband

Number of AT&T's accesses dropped in the quarter

Exchange Rate

Dollar had average growth of 9.6% in 2011

Euro annual growth hit 3.5%

Results 4Q11/2011

Net profit increased 11.9% in the year

Sales grew 11.8% in the quarter

Vendors in the World

Nokia's net revenue dropped 19.1% in 4Q11

Vendors Infrastructure

Ericsson's net revenue increased 14.7% in 4Q11

Calendar of Results

Check when operators will report their quarter results

Brazilian Statistics

87.9% of the domiciles have telephones

Congresses, Fairs and Seminars

Next events:

Feb 27 to Mar 1st: GSMA Mobile World Congress