11/30/2022

4G: 4th Cellular Generation in Brazil

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In this page: Monitors the evolution of cities and population covered by 4G technology (LTE) by each operator.

Initinal coverage of 4G networks (Oct/22)

 

Covered Cities	Population (%)
5,497	99.7%

Source: Operators

 

Cities covered with 4G technology in Brazil

Coverage without the incorporation of Oi

Operator	2019	2020	2021	Sep/22	Oct/22
TIM	3,477	3,877	4,692	5,157	5,223
Vivo	3,206	3,598	4,286	4,615	4,619
Claro	2,788	2,864	2,962	3,219	3,281
Oi	1,018	1,035	1,043	1,043	1,043
Algar	27	27	27	27	27
Total	4,779	5,169	5,421	5,478	5,497

Source: Operators

 

Covered with the incorporation of Oi

Operator	2019	2020	2021	Sep/22*	Oct/22*
TIM	3,477	3,877	4,692	5,157	5,157
Claro	2,788	2,864	2,962	3,249	3,310
Oi	1,018	1,035	1,043	-	-
Algar	27	27	27	27	27

Source: Operators *Since Apr/22 cities covered by Oi were incorporated to Vivo, Claro and TIM.

 

 

Population covered with 4G technology in Brazil

Coverage without the incorporation of Oi

Operator	2019	2020	2021	Sep/22	Oct/22
TIM	90.5%	92.2%	96.0%	98.1%	98.4%
Vivo	88.7%	90.8%	93.4%	95.3%	95.4%
Claro	86.0%	86.6%	87.3%	89.0%	89.4%
Oi	69.5%	69.8%	70.0%	70.0%	70.0%
Algar	1.3%	1.3%	1.3%	1.3%	1.3%
Total	96.9%	98.3%	99.4%	99.7%	99.7%

 

Coverage with the incorporation of Oi

Operator	2019	2020	2021	Sep/22	Oct/22
TIM	90,5%	92,2%	96,0%	98.1%	98.1%
Claro	86,0%	86,6%	87,3%	89.1%	89.5%
Oi	69,5%	69,8%	70,0%	-	-
Algar	1,3%	1,3%	1,3%	1.3%	1.3%

Source: Operators *Since Apr/22 cities covered by Oi were incorporated to Vivo, Claro and TIM.

 

 

Brazilian Cities Covered by 4G technology - Oct/22

 

Operators	Cities	% Cities	Population	% Population
Not Covered	73	1.3%	570,950	0.3%
1	468	8.4%	4,592,721	2.2%
2	2,220	39.9%	22,548,145	10.6%
3	1,966	35.3%	38,419,551	18.0%
4	828	14.9%	144,750,067	67.9%
5	15	0.3%	2,436,205	1.1%
Total Covered	5,497	98.7%	212,746,689	99.7%

 

 

Cities coverde by 4G technology in Oct/22

 

 

 

4G coverage by SMC Region in Oct/22

 

 

 

Region		Cities	% Cities	Population	% Population
1 and 2	São Paulo Capital and SP Interior	645	100.0%	46,649,132	100.0%
3	Rio de Janeiro/Espírito Santo	170	100.0%	21,571,857	100.0%
4	Minas Gerais	853	100.0%	21,411,923	100.0%
5	Paraná/Santa Catarina	697	100.0%	18,959,181	100.0%
6	Rio Grande do Sul	490	99.2%	11,432,808	99.9%
7	Middle West	620	91.2%	20,593,532	97.9%
8	North	450	99.1%	21,684,453	99.8%
9	Bahia/Sergipe	492	100.0%	17,323,758	100.0%
10	Northeast	1,080	99.5%	33,120,045	99.8%
Total		5,497	98.7%	212,746,689	99.7%

 

 

4G coverage by city in Oct/22

 

SMC	Vivo	Claro	TIM	Oi	Algar	Sercomtel
1 and 2	645	561	645	106	8	-
3	170	124	170	57	-	-
4	822	376	853	106	16	-
5	662	447	697	112	-	-
6	426	298	431	80	-	-
7	398	456	470	119	3	-
8	266	343	415	133	-	-
9	398	235	483	132	-	-
10	832	441	1,059	198	-	-
Total	4,619	3,281	5,223	1,043	27	-

 

 

Percentage of 4G coverage by population in Oct/22

 

SMC	Vivo	Claro	TIM	Oi	Algar	Sercomtel
1 and 2	100.0%	99.2%	100.0%	78.1%	1.2%	-
3	100.0%	96.2%	100.0%	88.0%	-	-
4	99.2%	80.6%	100.0%	62.6%	9.3%	-
5	98.3%	92.1%	100.0%	64.4%	-	-
6	98.5%	92.4%	97.2%	63.1%	-	-
7	91.3%	91.4%	90.4%	66.7%	0.7%	-
8	84.1%	91.1%	97.1%	68.8%	-	-
9	94.1%	76.6%	99.5%	61.9%	-	-
10	91.3%	78.4%	98.9%	64.6%	-	-
Total	95.4%	89.4%	98.4%	70.0%	1.3%	-

 

Commitments for 4G Coverage in 2.5 GHz

 

The commitments in 2.5 GHz will allow to cover:

 

Deadline	Coverage	Cities	% Pop
April 2013	ALL the cities hosting de Confederation Cup 2013	Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Salvador (BA), Brasília (DF), Fortaleza (CE), Belo Horizonte (MG) and Recife (PE).	9.4%
December 2013	ALL the cities hoting and co-hosting the World Cup 2014 (chosen ones)	Belo Horizonte (MG), Brasília (DF), Cuiaba (MT), Curitiba (PR), Fortaleza (CE), Manaus (AM),Natal (RN),Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Recife (PE), Salvador (BA), São Paulo (SP) and Porto Alegre (RS).	25.2%
May 2014	ALL the capital cities having more than 500 thousand inhab.	45	30.6%
December 2015	ALL the cities having more than 200 thousand inhab.	+ 91	+14.0%
December 2016	ALL the cities having more than 100 thousand inhab.	+ 152	+10.5%
December 2017	*ALL the cities having between 30 and 100 thousand inhab.	+ 791**	+20.7%

* As the cities co-hosting the World Cup (training centers) would be chosen only in January 2014, Anatel and operators, represented by SindiTelebrasil, agreed to replace the demand on "Edital" to cover more 12 cities indicated as co-hosts of the World Cup by the coverage of more 27 cities, besides hosting cities, until december 31st 2013 by one or more operators. The training centers will have punctual coverage until April 2014.

 

 

Coverage for the World Cup 2014

 

The coverage commitments by the auction of 4G frequencies (2.5 GHz) establiched the end of 2013 as deadline to operators to cover with 4G all the cities hosting and co-hosting the World Cup 2014.

The four operators covered with 4G the host cities accoring to the deadline, however, the cities co-hosting the event (Training Centers) would be chosen only in January 2014. Anatel and operators, represented by SindiTelebrasil, agreed to replace the demand on "Edital" to cover more 12 cities indicated as co-hosts of the World Cup by:

• Coverage with 4G more than 27 cities, besides the hosting cisties, until December 31st, 2013, offered by one or more operators (50% of the coverage in the urban area of the hosting city): Araraquara –SP, Bento Gonçalves - RS , Canoas – RS, Cascavel – PR, Caxias do Sul – RS, Guarujá – SP, Jaguariúna-SP, Macaé-RJ, Santos-SP, São José dos Campos – SP, Ipatinga- MG, Porto Seguro –BA, Maringá- PR, São Caetano do Sul-SP, Barueri-SP, Belém-PA, Boa Vista-RR, Campinas-SP, Florianópolis-SC, Juiz de Fora – MG, Macapá- AP, Maceió- AL, São Bernardo do Campo- SP, Uberlândia- MG , Goiânia- GO, Joinville-SC and Vitória- ES.
  
• Punctual coverage with 4G until April 2014 in the training centers chosen by the delegations until 01.31.2014, and not counted as hosting cities or included among the 27 cities.

 

 

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