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05/13/2025

Mobile Statistics in Brazil
Brazil	Market Share

In this page: Cellular statistics in Brazil, prepaid (%), cellulars per technology (GSM, CDMA, TDMA, AMPS) and per band. Source: Anatel.

Mobile Acesses in Brazil

Mobile Accesses

Thousand	Mar/24	Dec/24	Feb/25	Mar/25
Mobile Accesses	258,168	263,422	263,606	263,976
Prepaid	41.49%	38.80%	38.25%	38.01%
Density	108.75	109.10	108.93	109.03
Month Growth	805	-436	245	370
Month Growth	0.5%	-0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
Annual Growth	1,815	7,068	184	554
Annual Growth	0.7%	2.8%	0.1%	0.2%
Growth in 1 year	7,003	7,068	6,242	5,808
Growth in 1 year	2.8%	2.76%	2.6%	2.2%

Prepaid Cellulars

Thousand	Mar/24	Dec/24	Feb/25	Mar/25
Prepaid Accesses	107,124	102,221	100,827	100,330
Month Growth	-44	-1,550	-783	-497
Month Growth	-0.3%	-1.5%	-1.4%	-0.5%
Year Growth	-362	-5,266	-1,394	-1,890
Year Growth	-0.3%	-4.9%	-1.4%	-1.8%
Growth in 1 year	-3,844	-5,266	-6,341	-6,794
Growth in 1 year	-3.5%	-4.90%	-6.1%	-6.3%

Postpaid Cellulars

Thousand	Mar/24	Dec/24	Feb/25	Mar/25
Postpaid Accesses	150,196	161,201	161,740	162,767
Month Growth	709	1,113	539	1,027
Month Growth	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.6%
Year Growth	1,328	12,334	539	1,566
Year Growth	0.9%	8.3%	0.3%	1.0%
Growth in 1 year	9,637	12,334	12,253	12,571
Growth in 1 year	6.9%	8.28%	8.2%	8.4%

Quarterly

Thousand	1Q24	2Q24	3Q24	4Q24	1Q25
Cellulars	258,168	261,167	262,940	263,422	263,976
Prepaid	41.5%	40.8%	40.0%	38.8%	38.0%
Density	119.09	120.31	120.96	121.03	121.12
Addtions	1,815	2,999	1,773	482	554

Note: active mobile accesses, Density calculated based on IBGE's population projection for the respective month.

Annual

Thousands	2021	2022	2023	2024
Cellulars	254,711	251,988	256,354	263,422
Prepaid	46.8%	44.41%	41.93%	38.8%
Density	119.03	117.06	118.41	121.03
Additions	20,644	-2,723	4,366	7,068

Mobile Accesses per Technology

Since Jan/19 Anatel reports the number od mobile accesses by technology, including data terminals.

Thousand	1Q24	Jan/25	Feb/25	1Q25	∆Month	∆Year
2G	19,735	19,453	19,292	19,201	-91	-534
3G	17,350	17,223	17,100	16,820	-279,60	-530
4G	186,329	185,466	184,767	184,189	-578	114,821
5G	40,008	41,219	42,447	43,766	1,319	27,683

Thousand	2021	2022	2023	2024
2G	27,463	25,827	20,766	19,735
3G	28,812	24,498	20,735	17,350
4G	197,211	195,908	194,311	186,329
5G	1,226	5,755	20,542	40,008

The table below presents the number of data terminals reported.

Note: Since 2019 technologies include data terminals.

M2M Terminals

Special M2M and Standard M2M

Special M2M are devices used in machine to machine communication systems which, without human intervention, use telecommunication networks in order to transmit data to remote applications aiming to monitore, measure and control the device itself, the environment around or data systems connected to it through these networks, according to what was stablished by the Decree 8,234/2014;
Standard M2M are devices machine to machine in operation that don't match the definition of Special M2M.

Special M2M terminals pay reduced Fistel tax. Standard M2M terminals pay the regular value.

Mobile Accesses per Band

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