Brazil ended March 2013 counting 52.7 million postpaid accesses, which represented 19.95% of the total of cellulars in Brazil.
In the previous quarters, postpaid has been responsible for more than 65% of the cellular net adds in Brazil.
So, we should analyze whether postpaid accelerated its growth or whether it's only prepaid that is having a smaller growth.
Prepaid is going through a phase of base adjustment for operators which led to the reduction in quarterly net adds.
Vivo reduced the deadline to turn off inactive prepaid accesses and presented negative net adds (-865 thousand) inside this segment in 1Q13. At Oi the same happened (-87 thousand). Net adds leadership in the quarter was conquered by Claro (723 thousand), followed by TIM (648 thousand).
The situation is different in postpaid. Net adds in the 1Q13 were 14% bigger than 1Q12's. It can be an indicator that the migration of prepaid users to postpaid is being accelerated.
Other factor that can be contributing for postpaid growth is the use of data terminals and M2M, which totalized net adds of 651 thousand terminals in 1Q13, being 426 thousand M2M. The growth registered in these net adds was, however, small, in comparison with 1Q12 (612 thousand).
The growth of smartphone sales is another factor that encourages migration to postpaid, combined with the purchase of content and applications.
Vivo led postpaid net adds in 2012 and repeated the result in 1Q13.
Vivo also led in data terminals net adds during 1Q13 (320 thousand), followed by Claro (246 thousand), Oi (49 thousand) and TIM (-83 thousand).
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