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Cellular Operators
There are 7 groups of cellular operators in Brazil.
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Operator |
Controller |
Cellulars
(Thousands)* |
Market
Share* |
| 1ª |
Vivo** |
Telefonica
Portugal Telecom |
38,309 |
30.31% |
| 2ª |
Tim |
Telecom Italia |
32,548 |
25.87% |
| 3ª |
Claro |
América Móvil |
31,182 |
24.78% |
| 4ª |
Oi** |
Telemar |
18,737 |
14.89% |
| 5ª |
BrT GSM |
Brasil Telecom |
4,578 |
3.64% |
| 6ª |
CTBC |
CTBC |
388 |
0.31% |
| 7ª |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| BrT GSM |
33.4 |
33.8 |
34.9 |
34.6 |
29.8 |
| ARPU Brasil |
26.3 |
26.4 |
26.5 |
26.9 |
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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 |
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| MOU Brazil |
78 |
80 |
82 |
88 |
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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% |
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| BrT GSM |
1.8% |
4.4% |
3.3% |
4.8% |
2.7% |
| ARPU Brasil |
2.7% |
2.7% |
2.8% |
2.5% |
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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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