Who are the competitive operators of Fixed Broadband?
Fixed broadband competitive operators ended 2017 counting 5.9 million accesses (20.6% of the total) and were responsible for 81% of the fixed broadband net additions registered in the year. All SCM providers are considered competitive except for the leaders in this segment (Claro, Vivo and Oi).
The great majority of these providers operates in residential market and in small to medium-sized companies. There are, however, providers with a greater focus on the corporate market or the wholesale transportation market and metropolitan networks.
Top 10 in number of accesses
Among the 4 thousand competitive providers that reported accesses to Anatel in Dec/17 only ten had more than 50 thousand fixed broadband accesses.
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Different Technologies are used for these operators in most of their broadband accesses:
These ten providers together have 2.0 million fixed broadband accesses in 2017, 33% of the total. It should be noted that many of them are regional operators in Northeastern states.
Top 13 with 20 to 50 thousand accesses in 2017
Thirteen providers held between 20 and 50 thousand fixed broadband accesses in 2017, totaling 451 thousand accesses (7.6% of the total).
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Most of these providers operate inside the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais or Rio de Janeiro. Voce, However, operates inside the state of Amapá and Unifique and MKS in the South of the country.
The technology of most of the accesses were:
How these providers are distributed
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It is important to emphasize that the number of fixed broadband accesses provided by competitive operators are, in reality, higher than those reported for Anatel. Many of these providers don’t report their accesses monthly.
If we add, for example, the accesses of SCM providers that reported accesses in Nov/ 17, but didn’t do so in Dec/17, the number of Brazilian fixed broadband accesses in 2017 would have increased by 298 thousand accesses.
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