Brazil's market for mobile virtual network operators may have at least three players after French mobile virtual network enabler Sisteer was granted a license to operate as an MVNx by Brazilian telecommunications regulator Anatel.
Sisteer was awarded the full authorization to operate as an MVNO,...
At an auction of frequency bands leftovers held by Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel on Dec. 6, carriers offered $132.7 million for 15 lots of frequency sub-bands used for the provision of personal mobile services.
The number of broadband connections in Brazil reached 53.9 million in October, an increase of 68.4% compared with the same month last year, as the rate of broadband activations to more than one new access every second, Telebrasil reported.
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Recently authorized by Anatel, the Brazilian Telecommunications Government Agency, the two pioneer mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), Porto Seguro Telecomunicações...
In an interview with RCR Wireless News, Eduardo Levy, executive director of telecom union SindiTelebrasil, evaluates the effect of Rio de Janeiro's new rules on towers on Brazil's telecom landscape.
In Brazil, the city of Rio de Janeiro has new rules for installing radio base stations sites. The city is establishing a series of stricter rules for telecoms towers, both in public and private.
Among the main features, carriers will have to share their towers...
The Brazilian government named João Batista de Rezende to a two-year term as president of Anatel, the country’s telecommunications regulator. Rezende will replace Ronaldo Sardenberg, Anatel’s president since 2009.
Among other challenges, Rezende faces a controversial April auction of 2.5 GHZ spectrum, which will allow...
The Brazilian Agency of Telecommunications (Anatel) will conduct a public consultation about the proposal to amend the regulation on sharing infrastructure with providers of telecommunications services. The proposal aims to regulate the provisions of article 10 of Law No. 11.934/2009, which provides for limits...
HNS Communications Americas paid R$ 145.2 million (US $91.5 million) and was the first one to to win a satellite orbital position that would cover Brazil. The Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) on Aug. 30 auctioned the four satellite orbital positions. In total, companies...
It has been a competitive battle for the No. 2 position in Brazil’s mobile phone market. While Vivo has maintained its leadership position, the second position has been a long running dispute between Claro and TIM.
What was a slim lead for Claro in June,...
The Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) set a R$ 9.5 million (US $6 million) price for 2.5 GHz band spectrum so TV Filme BrasÃlia, which belongs to Sky Group, can use the band for multimedia communication services (MCS).
This authorization will enable the company to...
The Brazilian mobile market counted 217.3 million cellphones by the first half of the year, according to Telecommunications Nacional Agency (Anatel), which just released numbers that show a teledensiy of 111.6%. In June alone, 2.3 million mobile access lines were enabled.
Seventeen of 27 states had more than one mobile line per...
Brazilian carrier Vivo, which was bought by Spanish operator Telefônica in July 2010, kept its leadership in mobile access during the first half of 2011. According to numbers just released by Anatel, the carrier has just over 64 million users, which  represents 29.47% of market share.
TIM, from...
The Brazilian mobile market counted 217.3 million cellphones by the first half of the year, according to Telecommunications Nacional Agency (Anatel), which just released numbers that show a teledensiy of 111.6%. In June alone, 2.3 million mobile access lines were enabled. Seventeen of 27...
Anatel announced that it will bid on four Brazilian satellite orbital positions in the bands C, Ku and Ka within 12 existing positions. The rules for the auction will be available beginning July 19 and proposals must be delivered by August 23.
Each orbital position...
Anatel announced that it will bid on four Brazilian satellite orbital positions in the bands C, Ku and Ka within 12 existing positions. The rules for the auction will be available beginning July 19 and proposals must be delivered by August 23......
As part of the country’s National Broadband Plan, four Brazilian carriers said that within 90 days they would start providing 1 megabit per second fixed or mobile Internet access for R$ 35 ($22.50) per month. The carriers are Oi, Telefonica, Sercomtel and CTBC.
The schedule...
Wall Street Journal | June 22, 2011 |Â Rogerio Jelmayer
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)–Brazil mobile phone subscriptions increased to 215 million in May, up 1.16% from April, according to figures released late Tuesday by telecommunications regulator Anatel.
New subscriptions totaled 2.5 million in May, Anatel...
TeleGeography | May 9, 2011
Brazil’s telecoms regulator Anatel last Thursday approved plans to sell licences for wireless broadband services in the 3.5GHz band using WiMAX technology. The watchdog has revealed details of a public consultation which will run from 12 May until 27 June,...
Bloomberg | May 10, 2011 | Iuri Dantas
Brazil’s government is lobbying the telecommunications regulatory agency to speed up approval of more than 1,000 permits for individual companies to offer cable TV, Internet and telephone services, Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo said, according to Folha de S.Paulo newspaper.
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TeleGeography | March 25, 2011
Brazil’s antitrust regulator Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica (Administrative Council for Economic Defense, or Cade) approved on Wednesday, without limitation, Vivendi’s acquisition of GVT Holding, controller of local telco Global Village Telecom (GVT). The French telecoms and entertainment group originally...
Wall Street Journal | January 27, 2011 | Paulo Winterstein
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazilian telecommunications regulator Anatel on Thursday recommended approval of Vivendi SA's (VIV.FR) takeover of GVT Holding, which still has to be cleared by antitrust regulators.
Anatel had previously cleared the way for the...
