Brazil Net Cell Phone Subscriptions Rise 1.1% In Sept - Anatel
25 October 2010 - 9:33PM
Dow Jones News
Brazilian mobile phone subscriptions rose to 191.47 million in
September, up 1.1% from August, according to figures released late
Friday by telecommunications regulator Anatel.
Net additions totaled 2.04 million in September compared with
2.4 million net additions in August, Anatel said.
Vivo Participacoes SA (VIVO4.BR) maintained market leadership in
September, with a 30.14% share of subscriptions, compared with
30.23% in August.
Spain's Telefonica SA (TEF.MC) recently agreed to buy Portugal
Telecom SGPS SA's (PTC.LB) share in Vivo's controlling group.
Claro, the local unit of Mexico's America Movil SA (AMX.MX), was
in the No.2 position in September with a 25.47% market share, up
slightly from 25.43% in August.
TIM Participacoes SA (TCSL4.BR) was in third place with 24.52%,
up from 24.25% the month before. TIM is the local unit of Telecom
Italia SpA (TIT.MI).
In fourth-place, mobile-phone operator Oi (TNLP4.BR) registered
a share of 19.51% in September, down from 19.74% the previous
month.
-By Rogerio Jelmayer, Dow Jones Newswires; 55-11-8819-8711;
rogerio.jelmayer@dowjones.com
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