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01/07/2025

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	Nov/23	Dec/23	Oct/24	Nov/24
Mobile Accesses	255,032	256,354	263,473	262,839
Prepaid	42.06%	41.93%	39.77%	39.48%
Density	117.86	118.41	121.16	120.81
Month Growth	763	1,322	533	-634
Month Growth	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	-0.2%
Annual Growth	3,044	4,366	7,119	6,485
Annual Growth	1.2%	1.7%	2.8%	2.5%
Growth in 1 year	151	4,366	9,204	7,807
Growth in 1 year	0.1%	1.73%	3.6%	3.1%

Prepaid Cellulars

Thousand	Nov/23	Dec/23	Oct/24	Nov/24
Prepaid Accesses	107,264	107,486	104,775	103,770
Month Growth	-328	222	-481	-1,005
Month Growth	-0.3%	0.2%	-0.5%	-1.0%
Year Growth	-4,655	-4,434	-2,711	-3,716
Year Growth	-4.2%	-4.0%	-2.5%	-3.5%
Growth in 1 year	-4,968	-4,434	-2,817	-3,494
Growth in 1 year	-4.4%	-3.96%	-2.6%	-3.3%

Postpaid Cellulars

Thousand	Nov/23	Dec/23	Oct/24	Nov/24
Postpaid Accesses	147,767	148,868	158,698	159,069
Month Growth	1,091	1,100	1,014	371
Month Growth	0.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%
Year Growth	7,699	8,800	9,830	10,201
Year Growth	5.5%	6.3%	6.6%	6.9%
Growth in 1 year	5,119	8,800	12,021	11,301
Growth in 1 year	3.6%	6.28%	8.2%	7.6%

Quarterly

Thousand	1Q23	2Q23	3Q23	4Q23	1Q24	2Q24	3Q24
Cellulars	251,166	251,521	252,978	256,354	258,168	261,167	262,940
Prepaid	44.18%	43.31%	42.56%	41.93%	41.5%	40.8%	40.0%
Density	116.51	116.51	117.02	118.41	119.09	120.31	120.96
Addtions	-822	356	1,457	3,376	1,815	2,999	1,773

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

Annual

Thousands	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Cellulars	226,674	234,067	254,711	251,988	256,354
Prepaid	51.6%	49.2%	46.8%	44.41%	41.93%
Density	107.29	110.07	119.03	117.06	118.41
Additions	-2,528	7,394	20,644	-2,723	4,366

Mobile Accesses per Technology

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

Thousand	1Q24	2Q24	3Q24	Oct/24	Nov/24	∆Month	∆Year
2G	20,220	20,270	19,898	19,850	19,790	-60	-975
3G	19,490	19,273	18,206	17,759	17,552	-206,67	-3,183
4G	194,174	192,326	189,964	189,077	187,350	-1,726	114,833
5G	24,284	29,299	34,872	36,787	38,146	1,359	30,531

Thousand	2020	2021	2022	2023
2G	27,018	27,463	25,827	20,766
3G	33,310	28,812	24,498	20,735
4G	173,739	197,211	195,908	194,311
5G	-	1,226	5,755	20,542

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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