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05/29/2013

Specialized Mobile Services (Trunking)

In this page:Information about Specialized Mobile Service (SME) also called Trunking.

Specialized Mobile Service (SME) also known as Trunking or trunking system, is a service very similar to cellular service, being considered in many countries in the same category.

The main differences are:

SME is destined to legal people or groups of people characterized for the specific activity accomplishment. It cannot individually be offered to physical people.
It Offers: Push to talk, to a group.

Frequencies used

Main frequency: 806-821 MHz and 851-866 MHz,
Other Bands: 460-462 MHz and 465-467 MHz, MHz, 821-824 MHz and 866-869 MHz, 896-901 MHz and 935-940 MHz.

Consignment Frequency to SME operators is done in frequencies blocks of 1MHz (500 kHz to go / 500 kHz to come back). The maximum spectrum limit for each operator was expanded from 15 MHz, including transmission and reception channels, to 25MHz through Res. nº 519 of 11/21/08.

Regulation

Res. 404

(05/05/05)

SME Regulation

Res. 405

(05/05/05)

SME General Authorization Plan

Res. 406

(05/05/05)

Criteria of Remuneration for the use of SME service providers

SME Accesses - Annual

Thousands	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Accessws	1,331	1,844	2,508*	3,337	4,133	3,868
Nextel	97,6%	98,2%	99,0%	99,5%	99.6%	99.4%

SME Accesses - Quarter

Thousands	1Q12	2Q12	3Q12	4Q12	1Q13	Apr/13
Acessos	4,258	4,250	4,165	3,868	3,831	3,803
Nextel	99.3%	98.9%	99.4%	99.4%	88.5%	99.5%

Source: Anatel

Note: Anatel didn't report data about December 2012.

According to Anatel in September/04 there were 600 thousand accesses.

Nextel

SME accesses per UF (Unity Federacy)

Regions	Sep/12	Oct/12	Nov/12	Dec/13	Jan/13	Feb/13	Mar/13	Apr/13
North	459	459	459	449	449	449	449	449
Rondônia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Acre	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Amazonas	11	11	11	6	6	6	6	6
Roraima	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pará	363	363	363	358	358	358	358	358
Amapá	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Tocantins	83	83	83	83	83	83	83	83
Northeast	60,204	59,979	57,683	54,843	55,797	55,098	54,721	53,958
Maranhão	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Piauí	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ceará	11,706	11,878	11,505	11,039	10,910	10,743	10,890	10,787
Rio G, Norte	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Paraíba	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Pernambuco	26,410	26,401	25,615	24,817	25,176	25,074	24,599	24,311
Alagoas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sergipe	59	59	59	59	59	59	59	59
Bahia	22,018	21,630	20,493	18,917	19,641	19,211	19,162	18,790
Southeast	3,869,784	3,862,282	3,730,252	3,608,581	3,625,205	3,581,265	3,578,711	3,555,118
Minas Gerais	52,208	50,988	47,501	44,765	44,194	43,117	42,723	41,715
Espírito Santo	12,164	11,895	10,972	10,230	10,130	9,839	9,668	9,627
Rio de Janeiro	1,460,352	1,460,182	1,410,707	1,364,713	1,374,170	1,354,054	1,358,324	1,355,204
São Paulo	2,345,060	2,339,217	2,261,072	2,188,873	2,196,711	2,174,255	2,167,996	2,148,572
South	153,984	152,458	146,614	137,051	137,091	135,477	135,110	133,792
Paraná	80,867	80,268	77,150	73,967	74,291	73,806	73,777	73,460
Santa Catarina	32,654	32,136	31,086	30,121	29,925	29,543	29,436	29,013
Rio Grande do Sul	40,463	40,054	38,378	32,963	32,875	32,128	31,897	31,319
Middle-West	80,613	77,912	72,734	67,395	66,431	63,942	62,357	60,409
Mato Grosso Sul	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mato Grosso	150	150	150	150	150	150	150	150
Goiás	26,986	26,116	24,435	23,155	22,733	21,942	21,447	20,744
Brasília	53,477	51,646	48,149	40,090	43,548	41,850	40,760	39,515

Regions	1Q12	2Q12	3Q12	4Q12	1Q13
North Region	384	384	459	449	449
Rondônia	0	0	0	0	0
Acre	0	0	0	0	0
Amazonas	11	11	11	6	6
Roraima	0	0	0	0	0
Pará	363	363	363	358	358
Amapá	2	2	2	2	2
Tocantins	8	8	83	83	83
Northeast	59,778	60,218	60,204	54,843	54,721
Maranhão	8	8	8	8	8
Piauí	0	0	0	0	0
Ceará	11,698	11,774	11706	11,039	10,890
Rio G, Norte	0	0	0	0	0
Paraíba	3	3	3	3	3
Pernambuco	25,045	25,690	26410	24,817	24,599
Alagoas	0	0	0	0	0
Sergipe	9	9	59	59	59
Bahia	23,015	22,734	22018	18,917	19,162
Southeast	3,946,867	3,945,319	3,869,784	3,608,581	3,578,711
Minas Gerais	58,102	55,852	52,208	44,765	42,723
Espírito Santo	12,786	12,972	12,164	10,230	9,668
Rio de Janeiro	1,493,674	1,489,901	1,460,352	1,364,713	1,358,324
São Paulo	2,382,305	2,386,594	2,345,060	2,188,873	2,167,996
South	158,532	156,387	153,984	137,051	135,110
Paraná	83,755	82,808	80,867	73,967	73,777
Santa Catarina	33,651	32,848	32,654	30,121	29,436
Rio Grande do Sul	41,126	40,731	40,463	32,963	31,897
Middle-West	92,570	87,277	80,613	67,395	62,357
Mato Grosso Sul	0	0	0	0	0
Mato Grosso	0	0	150	150	150
Goiás	31,071	29,344	26,986	23,155	21,447
Brasília	61,499	57,933	53,477	40,090	40,760

SME Providers

Anatel divulged in 10/28/04 the result of public calling for the band frequencies blocks utilization, 806-821 MHz and 851-866 MHz. There is no need of petition to authorize, except in area 11 (São Paulo) where will be necessary to realize an auction.

Company	Total Price (R$Thousand)	Authorizations published in Mar/05
Digital Mobile Radio	4,339	Ato 49.588
Nextel	2,481	Ato 49.573
Telcom	2,298	Ato 49.589
Splice	1,734	-
Superchip	1,213	-
LiG-MÓBILE	435	Ato 49.587
Direct Telecommunications	328	Ato 49.584
TGD Tleglobal Digital	80	Ato 49.590
H. M. Sandres Sobrinho	33	Ato 49.586
Others	76	-
Comtrac	-	Ato 49.583

Click here to check detailed relation ( in portuguese).

Click here to check the authorization (in portuguese).

Tariffs to SME Fixed Telephone Calls

Minute Values in R$, revenue

	Normal Tariff	Reduced Tariff
VC 1	0.43804	0.30662
VC 2	0.83772	0.58640
VC 3	0.95316	0.6671

Telephonic Numeration

It uses the series started with 7. Vivo in São Paulo is also using series 7.

Frequency Relocation

Anatel through act 47,362 of 10/20/04 relocated the consigned frequencies for trunking (SME and SLMP) in the band of 806-821/851-866 MHz. Limited Private Mobile service (SLMP) is that one destined to the executant use, either natural or legal person.

Download of relocation ( in portuguese)

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