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09/03/2024

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	Jul/23	Dec/23	Jun/24	Jul/24
Mobile Accesses	252,001	256,354	261,167	261,557
Prepaid	43.10%	41.93%	40.77%	40.56%
Density	116.67	118.41	120.31	120.44
Month Growth	480	1,322	911	390
Month Growth	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
Annual Growth	13	4,366	4,813	5,203
Annual Growth	0.0%	1.7%	1.9%	2.0%
Growth in 1 year	-9,953	4,366	9,646	9,556
Growth in 1 year	-3.8%	1.73%	3.8%	3.8%

Prepaid Cellulars

Thousand	Jul/23	Dec/23	Jun/24	Jul/24
Prepaid Accesses	108,611	107,486	106,491	106,075
Month Growth	-324	222	-594	-416
Month Growth	-0.3%	0.2%	-0.6%	-0.4%
Year Growth	-3,309	-4,434	-996	-1,411
Year Growth	-3.0%	-4.0%	-0.9%	-1.3%
Growth in 1 year	-11,696	-4,434	-2,444	-2,536
Growth in 1 year	-9.7%	-3.96%	-2.2%	-2.3%

Postpaid Cellulars

Thousand	Jul/23	Dec/23	Jun/24	Jul/24
Postpaid Accesses	143,390	148,868	154,676	155,482
Month Growth	803	1,100	1,505	806
Month Growth	0.6%	0.7%	1.0%	0.5%
Year Growth	3,322	8,800	5,809	6,615
Year Growth	2.4%	6.3%	3.9%	4.4%
Growth in 1 year	1,743	8,800	12,089	12,092
Growth in 1 year	1.2%	6.28%	8.5%	8.4%

Quarterly

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

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	Jul/24	∆Month	∆Year
2G	20,220	20,270	20,169	-101	-597
3G	19,490	19,273	18,802	-470,44	-1,933
4G	194,174	192,326	191,678	-648	119,160
5G	24,284	29,299	30,908	1,610	23,294

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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