Cell phone companies in Brazil

Brazil > Telecommunications

The country has 220,400,000 subscribers in total. (August 2011)

Anatel regulates the country's telecommunications.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)
Ownership
1 Vivo GSM, GPRS, EDGE
UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+, LTE Under tests
65.02 [13] (August 2011) Telefónica (100%)
2 TIM GSM, GPRS, EDGE
UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+, LTE Under tests
56.86 [14] (August 2011) Telecom Italia (100%)
3 Claro GSM, GPRS, EDGE
UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+
56.20 [15] (August 2011) América Móvil (100%)
4 Oi
GSM, GPRS, EDGE
UMTS, HSDPA, LTE Under tests
36.05 [16] (December 2009) Oi (60%), PT Telecom (20%), BNDES (20%)
5 NEXTEL iDEN, UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+ Deploying 1.9389 [17] (March 2009) NII Holdings
6 CTBC [18] GSM, GPRS, EDGE
UMTS, HSDPA
0.54 [19] (December 2009) Algar[disambiguation needed ]
7 Sercomtel Celular [20] GSM
UMTS, HSDPA
0.09 [21] (December 2009) Londrina city (Paraná) State-owned Sercomtel

Source: Wikipedia

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