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Articles tagged with: Oi and Tim Brasil
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, brasil-telecom, gsm, vivo, claro, Brazil
Brazil telecoms loans to total US$1.79bn in 2007
BNDES was reported as saying by Agencia Estado in August that it expected to lend 2.4bn reais in 2007. more
Related Tags: amazon, tim, vivo, Brazil
Brazil's Unicel wins license to operate in 900MHz band
The company paid 15mn reais (US$8.23mn) for two blocks of 2.5MHz spectrum. The license authorizes the operator to offer services to 63 municipalities in the city of Sao Paulo and adds to the company's existing 30MHz in the 1800MHz band. 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, yankee-group, vivo, claro
TIM receives fixed line telephony license
Brazil's telecoms regulator Anatel has granted the country's second largest mobile company TIM a license to supply fixed line telecoms services, TIM said in a statement. more
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Oi to sell unblocked GSM handsets
..n Oi.Furthermore, existing Oi subscribers can take their blocked handsets to Oi's points of sale to have them adapted for use with SIM cards of other GSM operators free of charge, the statement said.Oi believes that customers will no longer accept bl more
Related Tags: sim-card, pyramid-research, tim, claro
Anatel: Vivo holds number one spot with 28.6% in Feb
Brazil's largest mobile operator Vivo ended February holding on to number one spot in the local market with a 28.6% share compared to 29.1% at end-December 2006, according to data from telecoms regulator Anatel. more
Related Tags: telecom-italia, tim