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Articles tagged with: Oi and Claro
Brazil Q4 2008 Market Update - Almost 10m added in best quarter ever
The Brazilian market passed the 150m customer mark during Q4 08 and recorded a best-ever figure for quarterly net additions. The gain of 9.85m was more than 1.6m higher than the previous best of 8.22m, the Q4 07 figure. With a year-end total of 150.62m, Brazilian penetration stood at 78.1%. Annual growth was down slightly on the 24.9% recorded in both Q2 08 and Q3 08, but at 24.5% it was still higher than the 2007 figure of 21.1%. In real terms, annual growth was even more impressive with an all-time high of 29.66m net additions in 2008, up 8.61m on the 2007 gain. more
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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, brasil-telecom, gsm, vivo, Brazil
Brazil September 2008 Customer Numbers
The total number of mobile connections in Brazil reached 140.79m at the end of September 2008, equivalent to a penetration rate of 73.2%. Monthly net additions stood at 2.37m down from 3.09m in August, but up on the 1.82m recorded in September 2007. The Brazilian market follows a strongly seasonal pattern, as the chart on the left shows: August is traditionally the second best month for growth, behind December. more
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Peru's Mobile Telephony to Surpass US$2.7 Billion in Revenues by 2013
Peru's Private Investment Promotion Agency (Proinversión) plans to auction off 821 - 824 MHz and 866 - 869 MHZ radio-electric spectrum for Lima and Callao along with 25 MHz on C-band (1.900 MHz) nationwide. This bidding process is designed to increase the level of competition in the local marketplace as well as expand the availability of mobile coverage in the country. more
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Brazil's Vivo, TIM Lose Mobile Market Share in June
..ding to data released by telecommunications regulator Anatel Thursday. Vivo, which is jointly owned by Spain's Telefonica and Portugal Telecom, saw its market share fall to 30.36% in June from 30.45% in May, while No. 2 operator TIM Participac more
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Brazil's Vivo Sees Mobile Phone Market Share Increase in May
..et in May, up from 15.03% in April. Vivo is jointly owned by Spain's Telefonica and Portugal Telecom; TIM is the local unit of Telecom Italia and Claro is a unit of Mexico's America Movil. Oi is a Brazilian company. -By Rogerio Jelmayer, Dow more
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Brazil's Main Telecoms Win 3G Licenses, Pay High Premiums
..n Brazilian cellphone operators are foreign owned. Vivo is jointly controlled by Spain's Telefonica and Portugal Telecom, while TIM is owned by Telecom Italia. Claro is a subsidiary of Mexico's America Movil. Operators started out offering ext more
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FEATURE: Brazil's Spectrum auction reshuffles mobile map
.. TIM and Claro are now almost neck and neck, 2.3 and 3.2 percentage points, respectively, below Vivo's 28% leading market share.Then there is the lucrative market of Sao Paulo, which thanks to the auction is now poised to gain its fifth operator in t more
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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
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Analysts: Claro likely to lead price war following Vivo expansion
..d to a price war in Brazil's mobile market, the analysts told BNamericas. Vivo, a joint venture between Spain's Telefónica and Portugal Telecom, announced it would pay 1.09bn reais (US$549mn) for a 22.7% controlling stake in Telemig and 120mn re more
Related Tags: telecom-italia, portugal-telecom, tim, number-portability, tim-brasil, yankee-group, vivo