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Articles tagged with: Brasil Telecom
Brasil Telecom deal boosts customers and debt
TNL PCS, which trades as Oi, completed the acquisition of Brasil Telecom in January 2009, thereby boosting its customer base to 31.84m at the end of Q1 09. The quarterly gain of 7.45m included approximately 5.6m Brasil Telecom customers. The prepaid base increased by 6.37m to 26.86m, while the contract base added 1.08m to finish on 4.98m, or 15.6% of the total. Prior to the acquisition, Oi had reported a marginally higher figure of 16% contract, although it only quoted this figure to the nearest 1%. more
Brasil Telecom Sees Market Leading Growth - Despite Record High Churn
Brazil's smallest operator, Brasil Telecom, has released its first set of results as a subsidiary of Telemar (Oi), the deal having been fully approved by the authorities before Christmas. For now Brasil Telecom remains a separately listed company and will continue to release its own results, although the company tells us that its Investor Relations function was merged with that of Oi in January. more
Related Tags: 3g, arpu, vivo, Brazil
Brazil's Penetration Set to Surpass 80% as Total Market Reaches 140m
Brazilian penetration is racing upwards, with a 14.0pp gain in the twelve months ending 30th September 2008 taking the figure to 73.2%. This compares to an 8.3pp gain in the prior twelve months. At the time of writing, penetration is likely to be approaching 80%, and although it is common for markets to slow down as 100% penetration is neared, a penetration rate in excess of 90% by the end of 2009 is a possibility. more
Related Tags: w-cdma, cdma, tim, tim-brasil, oi, gsm, vivo, claro, Brazil
The Top Operators in Caribbean & LatAm by Subscriber Growth
Between them, the ten fastest growing operators in Latin America and the Caribbean added a total of over 52m new connections over the past year, or around two thirds of the regionÃ's 78m total. Quarter on quarter, the bias towards the industry leaders was even more pronounced, with 17.55m of the 19.0m or so new connections happening at the top end of the market. The quarter is somewhat atypical, due to the dismemberment of Telemig, which has boosted the numbers for both Vivo and TNL, but this is a region with an unusual concentration of power. more
Related Tags: telefonica, tim, telcel, vivo
Brazil Telecom Competition to Heat up on Number Portability
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil telecommunication operators will see stiff competition get stiffer after the introduction of number portability earlier this week. more
Related Tags: telefonica, tim, number-portability, tim-participacoes, vivo, vivo-participacoes, Brazil
Brazil Anatel: Oi/BRP Rule-Change Proposal Ready by Mid-Sep
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's telecommunications regulator, Anatel, will complete rule-change proposals necessary for the takeover of local integrated telecom operator Brasil Telecom Participacoes by local rival Tele Norte Leste Participacoes', or Oi, by the middle of September, an Anatel official said Wednesday. more
Related Tags: telefonica, america-movil, compete, oi, Brazil
Brazil's Oi to Issue Telemar Operator Preferred Shares on NYSE
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazilian telecom Oi plans to list preferred shares in operating company Telemar Norte Leste on the New York Stock Exchange following completion of its deal to buy control of local rival Brasil Telecom Participacoes, company officials said Monday. more
Related Tags: oi, new-york, Brazil
Brazil's Oi: Signs Deal to Buy Rival Brasil Telecom
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's largest phone operator Tele Norte Leste Participacoes, or Oi, announced Friday the much-anticipated deal to buy control of smaller local rival Brasil Telecom Participacoes, creating a major local operator to face regional giants Spain's Telefonica and Mexico's America Movil. more
Related Tags: citigroup, telefonica, telecom-italia, portugal-telecom, tim, oi, pension, vivo, vivo-participacoes, Brazil
Who are the 20 Largest Operators in the Americas?
At the end of the September quarter, the ten largest networks in the Caribbean and Latin America region all had a minimum of 10 million customers. This remains the case in the current quarter, with those same ten and only those ten having passed this mark. In fact, the status quo is essentially undisturbed, with each of the ten remaining in the same place as they were three months earlier. In the light of this, we have decided to deviate slightly from our normal practice and to display the leading CALA operators together with their North American counterparts. more
Related Tags: sprint-nextel, verizon, alltel, telefonica, tim, sprint, telcel, nextel, vivo, 3m
Brazil's Oi Close to Brasil Telecom Takeover Deal
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's leading telecommunications firm, Tele Norte Leste Participacoes, or Oi, is close to taking over rival Brasil Telecom Participacoes after controlling shareholders reached an agreement on the key points of the deal. more
Related Tags: citigroup, telefonica, compete, oi, pension, Brazil