Brazil ended February with nearly 247.6 million active mobile lines, which represents a mobile teledensity of 126.45 lines per 100 inhabitants, according to a new report from Brazilian telecom agency Anatel.
Mobile broadband connections totaled 47.2 million, including more than 8.2 million 3G connections and nearly 39 million W-CDMA connections. GSM-based services owned the biggest share of connection with just under 199 million connections, or 80.37% of the market. CDMA connections totaled 1.4 million connections at the end of February, or just .58% market share.
Vivo remained the country’s largest wireless operator with nearly 74 million customers, or 29.85% marekt share. TIM was No. 2 with 65.9 million customers and 26.62% market share, followed by Claro with 61 million customers and 24.66% market share and Oi with nearly 46 million customers and 18.56% market share. Algar Telecom’s CTBC counted 675,627 connections and .27% of market share at the end of February, while Sercomtel counted 77,100 connections and .03% market share.
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