Brazil Net Cellphone Subscriptions Rise 0.8% In June -Anatel
July 15 2010 - 5:19PM
Dow Jones News
Brazilian mobile phone subscriptions rose to 185.1 million in
June, up 0.8% from May, according to figures released Thursday by
telecommunications regulator Anatel.
Net additions totaled 1.42 million in June compared with 2.95
million net additions in May, Anatel said.
Vivo Participacoes SA (VIV, VIVO4.BR) maintained market
leadership in June with a 30.24% share of subscriptions, down
slightly from 30.25% in May. Vivo is jointly owned by Spain's
Telefonica SA (TEF, TEF.MC) and Portugal Telecom SGPS SA (PT,
PTC.LB).
Claro, the local unit of Mexico's America Movil SA (AMOV,
AMX.MX), was second with a 25.33% share, down from 25.41% in
May.
TIM Participacoes (TSU, TCSL4.BR) was in third place with 24.0%,
up from 23.84%. TIM is the local unit of Telecom Italia SpA (TIA,
TIT.MI).
Fourth-place mobile-phone operator Oi (TNE, TNLP4.BR) registered
a share of 20.08% in June, down from 20.15% the previous month.
-By Jeff Fick, Dow Jones Newswires; 55-11-3544-7071;
Jeff.Fick@dowjones.com
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