HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTDA
www.huawei.com
Huawei Whitepaper
of Broadband
Q212
Prepared by
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Summary
Introduction
Fixed Broadband
Mobile Broadband
Special: London 2012
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Objective and methodology
Monitor mobile and fixed broadband growth in Brazil, through whitepaper on a
quarterly basis, covering the following areas:
Accesses and densities
Data revenue
Coverage
Service plans
Device prices
Information provided by carriers or based on official statistics from regulatory
agencies such as Anatel (Brazilian Regulatory Entity).
Consolidation carried out by analysts with large experience in the local
telecommunications market.
WHITEPAPERWHITEPAPER What's broadband?
Broadband according to ITUs Commission and Unesco:
Always-on, high capacity,
Transports great data volume by second and
doesnt have a particular speed.
In the practice: broadband makes possible supplying
voice data and video at the same time.
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Fixed broadband according to ITU:
Fixed access to internet with download speed equal or superior to 256 kbps.
The total fixed broadband accesses in Brazil is estimated by Teleco based on the fixed
accesses equal or superior to 256 kbps reported by operators. Anatel reports total
data accesses including all the speeds.
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Mobile broadband according to ITU:
Mobile accesses that didnt hire data package, but established data connection in the last
3 months with speeds announced equal or superior to 256 kbps.
Mobile accesses that hired data packages separated from voice service, being used or not.
The definition doesnt mention speed.
Mobile broadband according to Anatel:
Mobile accesses via data terminals, 3G or not.
Mobile accesses via 3G handsets using WCDMA technology.
In Jun/12, Anatel started to detail 3G data terminals as broadband data terminals (3G
modems, for example) and M2M data terminals (machines for credit or debit cards
enabled in the operators networks, for example).
The survey carried out in 5 Brazilian capitals to produce Huawei Whitepaper, showed that 79%
of the people who have 3G cell phones usually access internet.
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Services will be provided in an integrated way.
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Services integrated offer
Fixed and mobile
Voice, video and internet
Triple play packages are 26% cheaper than the purchase of individual services,
according to OECDs study
In IP networks with backbone, backhaul and access network based on fiber:
FTTH/FTTN (fiber until the residence or until the building /cabinet)
HFC/DOCSIS (evolution of the current cable TV networks)
Wireless (3G, LTE)
With increasing access speed: 1 Mbps, 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, .....
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Broadband growth in the world
According to ITUs estimations, fixed broadband increased 12.1% in the world and mobile broadband grew 26.2% in 2011.
Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of fixed broadband between 2005 and 2011 reached 18.3% and in mobile broadband hit 59.2%.
In 2011, mobile broadband reached the double of the accesses registered in fixed broadband.
In Brazil and in the world, WCDMA/HSPA is the main technology for mobile broadband holding more than 80% of the accesses in the world. (4G Americas)
Source ITU
26%
12%
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Growth of data traffic
The explosive growth of traffic continues to require investments in:
Access networks and backhaul, with intense use of fiber;
More spectrum (after the auction of Jun/2012, in Brazil, operators started to
invest also in the construction of networks for the new spectrum of 2.5GHz);
New technologies such as HSPA+ and LTE with more capacity and access speed.
Traffic of mobile data in the United States:
866.7 billion MB in Dec/11, with growth of 123% in one year. (US CTIA)
A better traffic distribution with offloading to Wi-Fi networks and small cells are
strategies to avoid network congestion.
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Summary
Introduction
Fixed Broadband
Mobile Broadband
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Fixed broadband access networks
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FTTH Council Europe
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12.5% of the fixed broadband accesses in the world were FTTH/B in 2011.
FTTH networks are also used to connect cellular antennas (cell sites).
The investment to implement FTTH in all the European domiciles reaches 192 billion. In Brazil it would be necessary R$ 100 billion. (FTTH Council/Teleco).
FTTH/B Accesses
Million 2011
Asia 54.3
USA/ Canada 9.7
Russia and countries
nearby 5.7
Europe 4.5
Middle East 0.5
Total 74.7
FTTH European Council
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Brazil is the 1st country in number of fixed broadband accesses in Latin America
with 17.9 million accesses.
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Source: ITU
Compoun
d annual
growth
rate (CA
GR): 31.4
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Fixed broadband density in Brazil in Q212 is still very far from the average found in developed
countries. In Latin America, its behind Chile, Mexico and Argentina.
In 2011, the fixed broadband average density in developed countries reached 25.7 access/100
inhab. In the USA, it hit 29.6 accesses/100 inhab.
In Jul/12, fixed broadband density in China reached 12.4 accesses/100inhab. and, in Jun/12, in India
it hit only 1.2 accesses/100inhab.
In Q212, fixed broadband density by domicile in Brazil reached 31.2 accesses/100 residence.
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Source: ITU and Teleco
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Fixed broadband in Brazil
14%
In Q212, fixed broadband in Brazil counted 17.9 million accesses increasing 19.9% in
the last 12 months.
By Telecos projections, Brazil will have 30 million fixed broadband accesses in 2014.
Density of 20 accesses/100 inhab. projected for 2016 will still be below the average
density of the OECD countries in 2011 (25.7 accesses/100 inhab).
21%18%
10%
Source: Teleco and Anatel
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Net/Embratel leads net adds in Q212.
Telefnica counted 90 thousand FTTH accesses in Q212 (1 million homes
passed).
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Source: Teleco and Anatel
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accesses by area
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Source: Operatoras and Anatel
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In Jun/12, there were 1.1 million SCM accesses between 12 and 34 Mbps and 310
thousand with more than 34 Mbps.
At Oi, 26.5% of the fixed broadband accesses had speed bigger than 5 Mbps in Q212
(12.8% more than 10 Mbps).
GVT increased to 15 Mbps the minimum speed offered in its packages. 76% of GVTs
1.8 million fixed broadband accesses had speeds equal or superior to 10 Mbps in
Mar/12.
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Fixed broadband revenue is likely to continue to increase at the same rate of the
last 5 years (CAGR: 16%).
Source: Teleco, ABTA and Abinee
16%
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- Q211 Q212
Oi 92.7% 93.4%
Telefnica 38.3% 38.3%
GVT 30.9% 34.1%
Net 30.3% 35.7%
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Coverage
In fixed broadband, we consider as covered the cities where the service is available,
through ADSL, Cable Modem or MMDS technologies. It doesnt include the service
provided by small suppliers through wireless technologies.
If the city is considered as covered, we count all its population as covered.
In 2011, practically all the cities downtown were covered by fixed broadband.
Source: Teleco
Cities
- Q211 Q212
Oi 4,829 4,895
Telefnica 644 644
GVT 101 129
Net 93 122
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Net: 122 cities GVT: 129 cities
Cities covered by NET and GVT
in Q212
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Prices are 60% higher (average) outside package services.
Popular internet plan (National Broadband Plan) costing R$ 35.00 or R$ 29.80 in states
where theres exemption of ICMS (tax).
1Mbps download, 128kbps or 300kbps upload, depending on the operator.
Franchise of 500 MB; the speed will be reduced to 128kbps for download when this
value is reached.
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Q212 1 Mbps 5 Mbps 10 Mbps15 or 20
Mbps100 Mbps
Oi R$ 39.90 R$ 59.90 R$ 69.90 R$ 79.90 -
Vivo Speedy R$ 29.80 - R$ 49.90 R$ 59.90* R$ 199.90
GVT - R$ 54.90 R$ 74.90 R$ 84.90 R$ 499.90
Net R$ 29.80 - R$ 59.90 R$ 99.90* R$ 299.90
*20 Mbps
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Summary
Introduction
Fixed Broadband
Mobile Broadband
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Growth of broadband
in the world
According to ITU estimations, mobile broadband increased 26.2% in 2011.
In Brazil and in the world WCDMA/HSPA is the main technology for mobile broadband.
Source: GSA, CDG
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mobile broadband speeds
In Jul/12, there were 105 LTE networks operating commercially distributed in 50
countries.
150 LTE networks may start operations until the end of 2012. (GSA)
According to Wireless Intelligence there were 45 million LTE accesses in the world in
Q212.
12.7 million were in the United States, being 10.8 million operated by Verizon.
7.3 million in Korea and 3.5 million in Japan.26
Source: GSA and 4G Americas
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Mobile broadband continues to be the
service holding the biggest growth in Brazil
58.7 million mobile broadband accesses in Q212 and 60.1 million in July.
Source: Anatel
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12.4 million mobile broadband accesses via data terminals in Jul/12.
In Jun/12, Anatel started to detail 3G data terminals as broadband data terminals (3G
modems, for example) and M2M data terminals (Machines for credit or debit cards enabled in
the operators networks, for example).
In Jul/2012, there were 6.2 million accesses via broadband data terminals and 6.2 million
accesses via M2M data terminals.
Source: Anatel
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Operators mobile
broadband accesses
Source: Anatel and Teleco
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Operators 3G accesses
Source: Anatel and Teleco
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Mobile broadband accesses
Mobile broadband increased 110.4% between Q211 and Q212.
In July/12, mobile broadband reached 60.1 million subscribers, with growth of 46%
in the accumulated in this year.
The growth is bigger in 3G handsets, mainly in smartphones.
Source: Anatel and Teleco ProjectionProjection
139%
133%
43%
99%
2%
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Density is bigger than
the world average
In Q212, mobile broadband density in Brazil reached 29.9 accesses/100 inhab. In
July/12, density overtook 30 accesses/100 inhab.
The average of the developed countries for mobile broadband: 56.5 accesses/100
inhab. in 2011.
Source: ITU and Teleco
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Converting cellular base
into 3G in Brazil
In Q212, by the net addition of 6.8 million 3G accesses, the participation of this technology in the total of mobile accesses in Brazil reached 22.5%.
Until Jul/2012, 3G net adds in the year reached 19.1 million subscribers.
New drop in the quantity of GSM accesses, from 197.5 million in Q112 to 196.4 million in Q212.
In the United States, AT&T wants to turn off its GSM network in 2017.
Source: Anatel and Teleco
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The participation of data revenue increases all around the world.
In the Japanese operators it already surpassed 50%, in the United States it hits about 40% and in Europe its superior to 30%.
SoftBanks data revenue reached 63.2% of the service revenue in Q212.
In Latin America, Telecom Personals data revenue reached 52% of the services revenue in Q212.
Source: Teleco and Operators
Data Revenue as % of the Service Net Revenue
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Data: increasingly important for
operators as revenue source
With the trend of fall in the participation of voice revenue, data services become an
important revenue source for carriers.
Data gross revenue represented 20.9% of the operators services net revenue in
Brazil in Q212.
Source: Teleco and Operators
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Data revenue increases quickly in Brazil: 24.6% between Q211 and Q212.
This trend is stimulated by the growth in smartphones sales.
At Vivo, data packages for internet access represented 49.9% of the data net
revenue gotten in Q212.
However, voice continues to increase in Brazil: 3.5% between Q211 and Q212.
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Data revenue in Brazil
Source: Teleco and Operators
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Evolution of 3G coverage
In mobile broadband, one city is considered as covered if the coverage area reaches at
least 50% (fifty percent) of its urban area.
If the city is considered as covered, we count all its population as covered.
In Q212, more than half of the 5,565 Brazilian cities were covered by mobile
broadband. Considering the population, this number means 86.3% of the coverage.
Source: Teleco
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Commitments of mobile
broadband coverage
In Q212, mobile broadband coverage by population was superior then the
commitments established for 2016.
112 new cities (1.7 million people) were covered by mobile broadband in Q212. In
Jul/12, 16 new cities were covered (301 thousand people).
Operators are focusing on expanding backhaul capacity in their networks located in
covered cities.
Source: Teleco
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Coverage commitments for cities having
less than 500 thousand inhab.
In April ended the deadline to operators to cover the cities that have more than 200
thousand inhab. (total of 130 cities).
Up to
April20162012 2013
Cities with more than
200 thousand inhab.
15% of the cities with less
than 30 thousand inhab.,
each year, up to 60% of
the total.
50% of the cities between
30 and 100 thousand inhab.
15% of the cities with less
than 30 thousand inhab.
130 cities/44.3% of the
Population
1,163 cities/7.5% of the Pop.
1,052 cities/61.9% of the
Population
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Mobile broadband coverage
by operator in Q212
Vivo keeps the leadership in 3G coverage reaching 2,831 cities and 84.6% of the
population in Q212.
Vivo ended the first semester with more than half of the 5,565 Brazilian cities
covered by mobile broadband.
Source: Anatel and Teleco
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3G coverage in Q212
In Q212, 47.1% of the Brazilian
population was covered by 4
operators.
All the state capitals and
cities with more than 500
thousand inhabitants are
covered by 4 operators.
Source: Teleco
Source: Teleco
Not covered cities
Middle West 361
North 359
Northeast 1,432
South 887
Southeast 1,084
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Cities covered in Q212
96.7% of the cities with more than 50 thousand inhabitants are covered by mobile
broadband already.
The coverage of cities that have until 50 thousand inhabitants surpassed 49%.
Competition is bigger in large cities. Mobile broadband is an alternative for fixed
broadband where it doesnt exist.
Source: Teleco
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Covered cities and population
by state in Q212
Mobile broadband is bigger in the Southeast.
Vivo is responsible for significant coverage in the state of Par, 60% of the cities and
80% of the population.
Source: Teleco
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Postpaid service plans for mobile
broadband (smartphone) in Brazil
Source: Teleco
OperatorVivo, TIM and Oi offer speeds until 1 Mbps and Claro, through promotion, offers until
3Mbps. After reaching this limit:
Vivoreduces the speed connection to 64, 128 or 256 Kbps, according to the plan and offers option
for not reducing speed by paying for additional MB.
Claroreduces the speed connection to 128 or 256 Kbps, according to the plan, and offers option for
not reducing it by the acquisition of an additional plan.
TIM reduces speed connection to 200 Kbps until the beginning of the next cycle.
Oi reduces transmission rate to 150 Kbps until the beginning of the next cycle.
All the operators are charging by data volume in postpaid plans.
Postpaid Package (Smartphone)
Vivo Volume: 20MB, 100MB, 500MB, 2GB, 5GB and 10GB
Claro Volume: 300MB, 500MB, 2GB, 5GB
TIM Volume: 300MB
Oi Volume: 30MB, 50MB, 100MB, 500MB, 1GB, 2GB
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International comparison between
mobile broadband packages
Source: Teleco
Brazil
Packages in 500MB Price
Vivo R$ 59.90
Claro R$ 49.90
Oi R$ 42.00
Brazil
Q212 Input plane Volume
Vivo R$ 9.90 20MB
Claro R$ 29.90 300MB
TIM R$ 29.90 300MB
Oi R$ 7.00 30MB
Latin America
Q212Input
planeVolume
Movistar (Mexico) R$ 9.79 100MB
Amrica Mvil (Argentina) R$ 4.45 25MB
Amrica Mvil (Mexico) R$ 7.38 50MB
Entel Chile R$ 24.09 200MB
Latin America
Packages in 500MB Price
Movistar (Mexico) R$ 23.35
Amrica Mvil (Argentina) R$ 26.28
Amrica Mvil (Mexico) R$ 29.98
Entel (Chile)* R$ 40.18
Note: TIM offers only data packages of 300MB for R$ 29.90 by month.
*600MB
Note: US$ 1 = R$ 2.02; US$ 1 = $ 13.41 (Mex. Peso); US$ 1 = 4.53 (Arg. Peso); US$ 1 = 502,2 (Ch. Peso)
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Average prices in Brazil for data packages are above the values charged in other
countries.
Tax and exchange damages Brazil in this comparison.
Average prices in Brazil for packages of 2GB dropped 9.8% between Q211 and Q212.
Operators are customizing their packages for different uses such as: E-mail, social
networks, chat or conventional internet access.
Mobile broadband
international comparison
Source: Teleco
Note: EUR 1 = R$ 2.56
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In Q212, all the operators offered prepaid data plans.
Source: Teleco
Prepaid service plans for
mobile broadband in Brazil
Prepaid Packages
Vivo Volume: 20MB
Claro Volume: 10MB, 150MB, 300MB
TIM Volume: 10MB, 80MB
Oi Volume: 15MB, 30MB, 5MB
Operators offer prepaid data packages by day (Oi, TIM and Claro), by week (Oi), by
fifteen days (Claro) or by month (Vivo, Oi and Claro).
TIM offers two plans for access for one day with different speeds tariffs.
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Source: Teleco
Prepaid service plans for
mobile broadband in Brazil
Brazil Daily Plan
Q212 Value Volume
Claro* R$ 0.50 10MB
TIM* R$ 0.50 10MB
TIM R$ 1.99 80MB
Oi R$ 0.50 5MB
Note: For speed of 1Mbps
*Speed of 300Kbps
Brazil Monthly Plan
Q212 Value Volume
Vivo R$ 9.90 20MB
Claro* R$ 11.90 300MB
Claro R$ 22.00 100MB
Oi R$ 9.90 30MB
Latin America Monthly Plan
Q212 Value Volume
Movistar (Mexico) R$ 29.98 1GB
Amrica Mvil (Mexico) R$ 45.04 1GB
Entel Chile R$ 12.03 60MB
Entel Chile R$ 16.05 150MB
Latin America Daily Plan
Q212 Value Volume
Movistar (Mexico) R$ 2.86 100MB
Amrica Mvil (Mexico) R$ 2.86 30MB
Amrica Mvil (Mexico) R$ 4.37 50MB
Amrica Mvil (Mexico) R$ 7.38 150MB
Note: US$ 1 = R$ 2.02; US$ 1 = $ 13.41 (Mex. Peso); US$ 1 = 4.53 (Arg. Peso); US$ 1 = 502.2 (Ch. Peso)
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The trend points that smartphones will become the main device to internet access overtaking PCs:
Almost 4 from each 10 cell phones sold in the world, in Q212, were smartphones.
Encouraged by smartphones sales of the Galaxy line and the smartphone/tablet Galaxy Note, Samsung kept the leadership in cell phones (including smartphones) in Q212.
According to the survey carried out for Huawei whitepaper, 60% of the 3G handsets are smartphones.
Other devices such as eReaders and tablets are also stimulating the growth of mobile broadband.
Smartphones are essential
for the growth of data use
Fonte: Fornecedores, Teleco e IDCSource: Suppliers, Teleco and IDC
41.3%
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Cell phone prices
In Q212, the average price of 3G cell phones (Smartphone) fell 18.7% if compared
with Q211 .
Note: unlocked or prepaid
Source: Teleco
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Prices of 3G smartphones
Highest
Lowest
Sony Ericsson (Xperia X8)
R$ 399
Apple iPhone 4S 64GB
R$ 2,699
Source: Teleco
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Average price for modem
The price of prepaid 3G modem presented considerable drop in the year.
The price falls when associated to a data plan, according to the plan modem is for free.
In Q212, the cheapest modem was sold for R$ 84.90.
-44.2%
Source: Teleco
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Final considerations
Mobile broadband in Brazil registered 60.1 million subscribers in July/2012, what represents a growth of
46% accumulated in this year and density superior to 30% of the population.
However, in developed countries density was already very superior in the end of 2011: 56.5 accesses/100
inhabitants.
In the second quarter of this year there was new drop in the quantity of GSM accesses, from 197.5 million
(Q112) to 196.4 million (Q212), confirming the trend for migration of terminals for 3G.
Net additions reaching 6.8 million subscribers in Q212, 3G participation in the total of cellulars in Brazil
reached 22.5%, with Claros leadership, but followed closely by TIM.
In coverage, Vivo ended the first semester with more than half of the 5,565 Brazilian cities covered by mobile
broadband, being almost 85% of the population covered with this service.
105 LTE networks were already operating commercially in 50 countries, in July/12. More than 50% of the LTE
accesses are concentrated in the United States, Korea and Japan.
Almost 4 in each 10 cell phones sold in the world today are smartphones.
In fixed broadband, Brazil is placed in the first position in Latin America with 17.9 million subscribers in Q212.
In the last 12 months, growth reached nearly 20%.
Even though, comparing density in relation to the number of inhabitants, Brazil is behind Chile, Mexico and
Argentina.
In domiciles, In the second quarter of this year, Brazil reached 31.2 fixed broadband access/100 domiciles.
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Source: Operators Q212
Market share in the United Kingdom
Population in London: 8.2 million
inhabitants
United Kingdom:
77.5 million cellular subscribers
20.4 million fixed broadband
accesses
Average speed of access:
Mobile broadband: 3.2Mbps
Fixed broadband: 5.6Mbps
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Source: Akamai, Ofcom 2011
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The regulator (Ofcom) made available, temporarily, frequency bands for
applications such as wireless cameras and microphones, ...
In order to guarantee bigger security, event organizers had their own radio network, in the
frequency of 430-478 MHz.
British Telecom (BT) was chosen as the official carrier.
The focus was in 94 places, being 34 for competition, where most of the public
concentrate in match days.
BT provided 80,000 connections, among them: 16,500 fixed telephones accesses, 14,000
mobile accesses and 10,000 cable TV points.
Inside the Olympic Village, 2,818 apartments were supplied with fiber.
BT offered Wi-Fi in all the points where public concentrated.
500 thousand hotspots in London, in July/12.
80 subway stations were supplied with Wi-Fi. (Virgin Media)
Telecom operators were united and created the JOOG (Joint Operators Olympic
Group).
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Source: British Telecom
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For the first time, flat panels antennas with 40 cells for a public estimated in 82,000
people.
The cells outside the stadiums were adjusted to dont interfere in the transmission inside
these places.
To occupy the hole left between cells, microcells were installed in the surrounding area.
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The implementation of mobile
network in a stadium was the
starting point for designing the
mobile network of the Olympic Park.
This network was shared for all the
operators.
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JOOG allowed to share the coverage made
in all the Olympic Park.
Operators equipments were together in a
big site, named BTS Hotel, where was
performed the division of the signal coming
from the antennas network to each one.
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In order to vent the 3G network, operators made an agreement for sharing BTs Wi-Fi
network and offered the service for free to their clients in 4,000 hotspots strategically
chosen.
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BTs network was projected with capacity 4 times bigger than the capacity of
Beijing 2008.
There was the expectation of traffic volume 10 times bigger than what was
measured in London in 2010.
The operators needed to cover all the areas of matches to support a big quantity of
people in a small space.
Uploads peaks, in key moments of the games, also concerned the carriers.
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During peak times, BTs network supported 60 Gigabits by second.
The Games official site transferred 1.2 Petabytes during the event.
BBC delivered 2.8 Petabytes during one single day.
BTs Wi-Fi network was used by 13.2 million minutes only in the Olympic Park.
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Source: Eurocomms, itproportal, computerweekly, fiercewireless
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The telecommunication structure prepared for the Olympic Games in London supplied
the necessities of the event, but:
Only 15% of the 3G users tried watch live event through mobile handsets in
London. These, 70% didnt succeed.
In cycling race, a crowd gathered to follow the competition far from the Olympic
Park, but as there was no structure for that, there was data congestion.
There wasnt sturdy structure such as the one installed inside the Olympic Park
inside local roads.
Theres doubt about how this structure will be managed after the end of the
Paralympic Games and what will become permanent.
London received 300 thousand foreign visitors and 600 thousand British citizen during
the Olympic Games, with hotels registering rate of 84% of occupation. The number of
visitors in London during the Games was smaller than the usual for this time of the
year.
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The focus of investment in network infrastructure should be in the places of the
events and in the accesses.
The competitions outside the Olympic Park, like marathon and cycling, require a
special solution to supply the public agglomerated to follow the athletes.
The infrastructure to give support to the Games should be shared between the
operators.
Data traffic in 2014 and 2016 will stands out, corresponding to more than 95% of
the total traffic.
The support to applications such as video streaming should be responsible for data
volume many time superior to London 2012s.
It will be essential to use Wi-Fi networks in order to vent the traffic of the mobile
networks in places of great number of people.
Anatel should assign temporary frequencies for services that are vital for the
Games.
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