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11/24/2011 |
Cellular Operators in Brazil
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This page: Quarter and Annual informations of Revenue, EBITDA, EBITDA Margin, Profit and cellular operators investments in Brazil |
Mobile Operators - Oct/11
There are 7 groups of cellular operators in Brazil.
| - | Operator | Controller | Mobile Accesses (Thousands) |
Market Share |
| 1st | Vivo | Telefonica | 68,587 | 29.61% |
| 2nd | Tim | Telecom Italia | 60,225 | 26.00% |
| 3rd | Claro | América Móvil | 58,381 | 25.20% |
| 4th | Oi | AG, LaFonte, BNDES, Fundos and Portugal Telecom |
43,691 | 18.86% |
| 5th | CTBC | CTBC | 674 | 0.29% |
| 6th | Sercomtel | Prefeitura Londrina/Copel | 77 | 0.03% |
| 7th | Aeiou | Unicel | - | - |
Source: Anatel
Area of Service Provider, Bands and Technology
Vivo is the only operator with CDMA as main technology. The others adopted for GSM. Vivo implanted in 2006 a GSM network which started to get in commercial operation in Dec/06.
The area of service provider and band ( frequency) of these operators can be consulted in band and areas or on dynamic maps presented below.
Cellular Operators Dynamic Map Service Area, Bands and Technology Click on the map
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Operational Performance
Mobile accesses
| Thousands | 1Q10 |
2Q10 |
3Q10 |
4Q10 | 1Q11 | 2Q11 | 3Q11 |
| Vivo | 53,949 | 55,977 | 57,714 | 60,293 | 62,061 | 64,049 | 67,038 |
| TIM | 42,368 | 44,425 | 46,947 | 51,028 | 52,849 | 55,525 | 59,210 |
| Claro | 45,583 | 46,902 | 48,767 | 51,638 | 53,438 | 55,534 | 57,514 |
| Oi | 36,555 | 37,169 | 37,358 | 39,273 | 41,443 | 41,510 | 42,842 |
| CTBC | 552 | 563 | 589 | 616 | 623 | 646 | 672 |
Note: Active Cellulars in the operators in the end of the quarter, according to quarter published reports.
Prepaid (%)
| % | 1Q10 |
2Q10 |
3Q10 |
4Q10 | 1Q11 | 2Q11 | 3Q11 |
| Vivo | 80.5% | 79.7% | 79.1% | 79.0% | 78.5% | 77.8% | 77.1% |
| Claro | 80.8% | 81.0% | 80.8% | 80.2% | 79.5% | 79.2% | 79.0% |
| TIM | 84.4% | 84.4% | 84.6% | 85.3% | 85.4% | 85.6% | 85.4% |
| Oi* | 85.6% | 85.8% | 85.8% | 86.6% | 87.2% | 87.0% | 87.4% |
| CTBC | 68.3% | 66.9% | 67.3% | 64.8% | 64.8% | 68.9% | 64.5% |
| Brazil | 82.5% | 82.3% | 82.1% | 82.3% | 82.2% | 81.9% | 81.6% |
* Total released by Anatel.
ARPU (R$)
| R$ | 1Q10 |
2Q10 |
3Q10 | 4Q10 | 1Q11 | 2Q11 | 3Q11 |
| Vivo | 24.8 | 25.0 | 25.2 | 25.9 | 24.6 |
25.1 | 26.2 |
| Claro | 20.0 | 19.0 | 19.0 | 18.0 | 18.0 | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| TIM | 24.0 | 24.1 | 23.4 | 23.3 | 20.8 | 21.6 | 21.2 |
| Oi | 21.8 | 22.4 | 22.9 | 23.5 | 20.7 | 21.6 | 22.2 |
| ARPU Brazil | 22.8 | 22.7 | 22.7 | 22.8 | 21.3 | 21.5 | 21.8 |
Note: Average Revenue per user- is the result of net revenue of services divided by the average number of cellulars in certain period of time and period of months.
MOU (minutes)
| Minutes | 1Q10 |
2Q10 |
3Q10 | 4Q10 |
1Q11 | 2Q11 | 3Q11 |
| Vivo | 116 | 114 | 115 | 118 | 114 | 119 | 127 |
| Claro | 92 | 93 | 100 | 96 | 90 | 84 | 109 |
| TIM | 100 | 110 | 123 | 129 | 126 | 127 | 130 |
| MOU Brazil | 103 | 106 | 113 | 114 | 110 | 110 | 122 |
Note : Montly minutes of cellular use - it is gotten dividing minutes of cellular use in certain period of time ( originated and received calls) by the average number of cellulars in a period of time and period of months.
Monthly Churn (%)
| R$ | 1Q10 |
2Q10 |
3Q10 | 4Q10 |
1Q11 | 2Q11 | 3Q11 |
| Vivo | 2.5% | 2.6% | 2.9% | 2.7% | 2.7% | 2.8% | 2.9% |
| Claro | 2.8% | 3.2% | 3.1% | 3.1% | 3.3% | 3.5% | 4.0% |
| TIM | 3.4% | 3.4% | 3.7% | 3.7% | 4.3% | 4.2% | 3.9% |
| Oi | 3.3% | 3.4% | 4.1% | 2.8% | 2.6% | 5.1% | 4.1% |
| CTBC | 2.7% | 2.6% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5%* |
| Churn Brazil | 3.0% | 3.1% | 3.4% | 3.1% | 3.2% | 3.8% | 3.7% |
Note: Percentile tax of costumers not connected during a certain period of time- it is gotten dividing the total of cancellations in the period by the average number of cellulars in the period.


