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Telecom Italia rejects claims of TIM Brasil sale

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Telecom Italia has rejected claims that TIM Brazil is up for sale and affirmed its commitment to the Brazilian mobile operator. Recent reports said that Telefonica, the Italian operator’s largest shareholder, was considering a plan to break up TIM Brazil in order to comply with an order from the Brazilian regulator to limit its activities in the market. Telefonica already owns the largest mobile operator in Brazil, Vivo, and after recently increasing its stake in Telecom Italia, may be able to also influence TIM Brasil.

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TIM and BMG Partnership for Mobile Banking in Brazil

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Brazilian based mobile operator TIM Brasil and bank BMG have partnered to launch a mobile service for customers using BMG bank and credit cards. The SIM card will support access to banking services such as credit applications and balance inquiries and provide bonuses for using mobile services.

The service will work with any kind of mobile phone, not just smartphones. The service will be offered for customers of the TIM prepaid plans Infinity Pre and Cost Control. The goal is to distribute 20,000 cards during the first quarter.

The Rise in Mobile Banking

According to a recent report by Juniper Research, over a billion mobile phone users will have made use of their mobile devices for banking purposes by the end of 2017, compared to just over 590 million this year. Whilst the forecast of 1 billion users by 2017 represents over 15% of the mobile subscriber base, it should be acknowledged that around half of all mobile subscribers remain unbanked, with limited access to traditional financial services.

Claro, Vivo, Oi and TIM win 4G licences in Brazil

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Vivo, Claro, TIM Brasil and Oi have been chosen to provide the 4G mobile internet service in Brazil. The companies submitted bids of BRL 1.05 billion, BRL 630.191 million, BRL 340 million and BRL 330.851 million respectively, winning the spectrum auction held on 12 June by the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel)

Frequencies in the 450 MHz band for rural mobile telephony were auctioned, too, and as there were no bids, the four operators that won the 4G auction will also be required to invest in that segment.

In the 4G auction notice, Anatel did not define what internet speeds operators must offer for the 2.5 GHz band service. For the 450 MHz band, the download speed must be at least 256 Kbps and the upload speed, 128 Kbps. In addition to the national and rural telephony lots, Anatel is also auctioning 268 lots of frequency bands for regional operations, and Sky Brasil won at least ten lots.

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Turmoil in the SMS Market in Brazil

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TIM and Claro filed a complaint against Vivo before the Brazilian regulator ANATEL, arguing that the promotion “Receive More SMS” (in Spanish: Reciba más SMS) created a parallel market for SMS.

The promotion launched by VIVO in 2011 and extended until the end of May 2012 encourages subscribers for every SMS received, the subscriber gets $ 0.0247 USD credit per SMS.

According to Marketing Director at TIM, Roger Solé, “this type of promotion encourages fraudulent use of SMS”.

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Brazil has more than 250 million mobile subscribers in March 2012

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Brazil ended March 2012 with more than 250.8 million active mobile subscribers, of which 52 million were 3G, representing growth of 10.11 percent from 47.2 million 3G handsets in February 2012.

The mobile phone penetration rate rose to 128 percent. Of the total mobile phones in the country, 205.2 million were prepaid (81.83%) and 45.6 million postpaid (18.17%). The absolute number of new additions (3.2 million) is the largest recorded for the month of March in the last thirteen years and represents an increase of 1.30 percent compared with February 2012, according to statement from the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel).
Maranhao remains the only Brazilian state with less than one mobile phone per capita density (84.4).

Vivo is still the market leader with 74.78 million subscribers (29.81% market share), followed by TIM with 67.2 million subscribers (26.80%), and Claro in third position with 61.59 million subscribers (24.56%). Oi appears in fourth place with 46.69 million active subscribers (18.53%) and was the only one to see its market share shrink in comparison with the previous month. In percentage terms, Claro was the operator with the highest growth.

TIM Brasil net profit jumps 116% in Q3

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Mobile operator TIM Brazil reported third-quarter net income of BRL 316.6 million, up nearly 116 percent from BRL 146.5 million in the same period of 2010. Revenue was BRL 4.37 billion in the third quarter, up 18.9 percent over the same period last year. ARPU was down 9.5 percent from a year ago to BRL 21.2, while the subscriber base jumped 6.1 percent year-on-year to 59.2 million lines at the end of September.

The operator recorded growth in minutes per user (MOU), which reached 130 minutes in the quarter, up 5.2 percent compared to 123 minutes in the same period last year. The acquisition cost per customer (SAC) fell to BRL 36, versus BRL 55 last year. Capex amounted to BRL 87 million in the three months to September, compared to BRL 526 million in the year-earlier quarter.

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Brazil adds nearly 3 million mobile subscribers in May

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The number of mobile subscribers in Brazil grew 1.63 percent in May over April, with 2.95 million new customers added, taking the total to 183.71 million.

Cumulative net additions from January to May 2010 totalled 9.75 million, the best result for this five-month interval since the start of the measurements in 2000. Of the total mobile lines, 151.4 million were prepaid (82.4 percent) and the remaining 32.3 million were postpaid.

Vivo Participações continued as market leader with 55.6 million customers and a market share of 30.25 percent. Telecom Americas (Claro) was second with 46.7 million subscribers (25.41 percent), TIM had 43.8 million (23.84 percent), and Tele Norte Leste Participacoes, S.A. (Oi) was at 37 million customers (20.15 percent).

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