Claro leads mobile growth in July
Claro led mobile growth in Jul/10 with net adds reaching 639 thousand mobile accesses, overtaking Vivo and Tim, what didn't happen since August 2009. Claro led prepaid net adds (526 thousand cellulars) getting the second position in postpaid with net adds of 114 thousand against 295 thousand (Vivo's).
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In 2010, Claro's best result was the second position in Jan/10.
Oi reached net adds of 100 thousand mobile accesses in July. Its growth continues to be lower than the others'. The company also saw its market share to drop lower than 20%.
Tim led mobile growth in June presenting drop in its performance in July. Vivo, which led mobile growth in the last 5 months, kept the second position.
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Claro presented good performance in all the regions, leading growth in net adds inside Regions I and II. The carrier also reverted the negative performance gotten in Region III (São Paulo) in June.
| Net Adds in July/2010 | ||||
| Thousands | Region I |
Region II |
Region III |
Brazil |
Vivo |
368 |
124 |
105 |
597 |
Claro |
398 |
195 |
46 |
639 |
Tim |
276 |
111 |
165 |
551 |
Oi |
-24 |
87 |
37 |
100 |
Claro had a better performance in Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Bahia and other states in the northeast.
Brazilian mobile net adds in June and July were inferior if compared with the one gotten in the same period of 2009. Is may happen again in August, month which presented strong growth in 2009.
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Claro's performance in July signal that the operator will compete, along the second semester, for the leadership in net adds with Vivo and Tim. It may guarantee mobile growth in the last months of 2010. This growth may be higher than the one presented in the same period of 2009, confirming Teleco's projection that net adds will reach 26 million mobile accesses in 2010.
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