Which company is having bigger growth in 2014?
Brazilian mobile telephony presented, in the first nine months of 2014, growth (2.6%) close to be one registered in 2013 (2.5%).
Postpaid net adds are smaller, but prepaid net adds are making a recovery.
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This stability board isn't repeated, however, when we consider each operator individually.
Vivo's net adds rocketed 157% in the period analyzed while TIM and Claro's registered drop of 50% and 68% respectively.
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The postpaid performance was the main responsible for the drop in TIM's net adds when we compare the first eight months of 2014 with the same period of 2013. Vivo, Claro and Oi's postpaid net adds presented few variations. Nextel operates only inside postpaid segment.
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Inside prepaid segment, Claro and Vivo showed big variations in net adds when we compare the first eight months of 2014 with the same period of 2013.
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Claro goes through an adjustment of its base and, despite of its leadership in prepaid growth in August with net adds of 252 thousand prepaid accesses, we can't be sure yet that this adjustment was finished.
Vivo's leadership in mobile net adds in 2014 happened only because the operator managed to reduce its negative net adds inside this segment.
In this scenario, we can note that TIM and Oi are two operators that still present bigger focus on prepaid. Claro is changing in order to impose stronger competition in postpaid facing Vivo and Nextel.
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