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Telefonia Celular

05/12/08

 

Cellular Operators in Brazil

 

 

This page: Quarter and Annual informations of Revenue, EBITDA, EBITDA Margin, Profit and cellular operators investments in Brazil

 

Cellular Operators

 

There are 7 groups of cellular operators in Brazil.

 

 

- Operator Controller Cellulars
(Thousands)*
Market
Share*
Vivo** Telefonica
Portugal Telecom
38,309 30.31%
Tim Telecom Italia 32,548 25.87%
Claro América Móvil 31,182 24.78%
Oi** Telemar 18,737 14.89%
BrT GSM Brasil Telecom 4,578 3.64%
CTBC CTBC 388 0.31%
Sercomtel Prefeitura Londrina
Copel
71 0.06%

* Source: Anatel,March/08

** Telemig Celular was sold to Vivo and Amazônia Celular to Oi.

 

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.

 

 

 

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Operational Performance

 

Cellular

 

Thousands 1Q07 2Q07 3Q07 4Q07 1Q08
Vivo/Telemig 32,526 33,785 34,936 37,385 38,309
TIM 26,307 27,478 29,160 31,254 32,533
Claro 24,607 26,252 27,981 30,228 31,182
Oi/Amaz. 14,614 14,925 16,212 17,401
*
BrT GSM 3,638 3,769 4,024 4,263 4,578
CTBC
355
346
345
361
ND

Note: Active Cellulars in the operators in the end of the quarter, according to quarter published reports.

* Amazônia didn't publish the 1Q08 data

 

 

 

Pre-paid (%)

 

% 1Q07 2Q07 3Q07 4Q07 1Q08
Vivo/Telemig
**
**
81.0%
81.1%
80.9%
TIM
78.4%
78.0%
77.4%
78.3%
79.2%
Claro
82.5%
81.8%
81.2%
81.0%
80.8%
Oi/Amaz.
75.9%
74.9%
77.2%
77.2%
*
BrT GSM
73.4%
76.4%
78.7%
79.9%
81.9%
CTBC
66.2%
65.0%
64.1%
64.8%
ND

Note: Percentage of pre-paid cellulars in relation to the number of cellulars operators.

* Amazônia didn't publish the 1Q08 data ; ** Vivo didn't publish these data.

 

ARPU (R$)

 

R$ 1Q07 2Q07 3Q07 4Q07 1Q08
Vivo/Telemig
29.7
29.8
30.6
30.9
29.5
TIM
34.4
34.6
34
34.5
29.5
Claro
27.0
27.0
27.0
28.0
26.0
Oi/Amaz.
22.2
22.1
22.8
23.3
*
BrT GSM
33.4
33.8
34.9
34.6
29.8
ARPU Brasil
26.3
26.4
26.5
26.9
-

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.

* Amazônia didn't publish the 1Q08 data

 

MOU

 

R$ 1Q07 2Q07 3Q07 4Q07 1Q08
Vivo/Telemig
74
76
77
80
77
TIM
89
94
94
106
94
Claro
71
70
80
85
81
Oi/Amaz.
78
77
76
79
*
MOU Brazil
78
80
82
88
-

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.

* Amazônia didn't publish the 1Q08 data

 

Montly Churn

 

R$ 1Q07 2Q07 3Q07 4Q07 1Q08
Vivo/Telemig
2.6%
2.4%
2.3%
2.2%
2.8%
TIM
2.9%
3.2%
2.8%
2.8%
2.6%
Claro
2.8%
2.4%
2.8%
2.0%
2.0%
Oi/Amaz.
2.6%
2.7%
3.8%
3.0%
*
BrT GSM
1.8%
4.4%
3.3%
4.8%
2.7%
ARPU Brasil
2.7%
2.7%
2.8%
2.5%
-

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.

* Amazônia didn't publish the 1Q08 data

 

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