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Articles tagged with: Brasil Telecom and Vivo
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, 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, 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
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-participacoes, 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-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, 3m
Brazil Telecoms Benefit from Falling Rates, Strong Currency in 3Q
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Third-quarter earnings of Brazil's telecommunications companies will probably benefit from lower interest rates and a stronger Brazilian real. more
Related Tags: telecom-italia, portugal-telecom, telefonica, tim, oi, tim-participacoes, vivo-participacoes, Brazil
First round of Brazil's leftover spectrum auction raises US$188mn
There were three blocks that drew no bids Tuesday, leaving 82 blocks still to go to auction on Wednesday. more
Related Tags: amazon, tim, compete, tim-brasil, oi, yankee-group, claro, Brazil
Anatel to assess TEF, TI deal on Aug 30
Related Tags: telecom-italia, tim, credit-suisse, tim-brasil, yankee-group
Telecom Italia Mobile 3G Subscribers Pass 5 Million
Telecom Italia (TI) has released preliminary figures for the first half of 2007 and the operational numbers are typically light on much useful detail. However, they show that domestic mobile unit TIM had a 3G customer base of over 5.1m at the end of June, overall customer numbers rising to 34.3m from 33.6m at the end of March. Mobile service revenues increased by 6.5% year on year between Q2 2006 and Q2 2007, the biggest increase recorded in some while, although this statistic excludes "discontinuities" which have impacted the way revenues are accounted for in the last year. The elements accounted for as discontinuities by TI include a change in the way roaming traffic is accounted for (following EU guidelines), a termination rate cut for fixed-to-mobile calls and the so called "Bersani Decree" - a recent piece of government legislation affecting all Italian companies. However unfortunate it may be, domestic and European regulation and legislation is a fact of life for all Europe's telcos. Of course we understand why TI shows us figures excluding "discontinuities" - to demonstrate that the underlying business is performing well - but take out termination and roaming rate cuts and the like and many peers would also have a very much better story to tell. As it was, on an actual basis, stated mobile service revenues at TI fell by 1.3% or €30m year on year from €2.351bn in Q2 2006 to €2.321bn in Q2 2007. more
Related Tags: avea, telecom-italia, vas, tim, eu, entel, tim-brasil, oger-telecom, turk-telecom