- http://www.rcrwireless.com/americas/20120221/carriers/reality-check-eight-brazilian-telecom-issues-to-watch-while-the-market-boosts/
- Maria Luiza Kunert (USP)
- Anatel, Ericsson, NEC, Vivo, Agilent, ...
- No. 1 – Mobile payments and NFC
- Bradesco and América Móvil’s Claro (new company)
- Vivo and MasterCard (joint venture)
- Cielo and Paggo (expansion plans)
- São Paulo State Public Transportation company (mobile payments via NFC)
- No. 2 – More than 50 million mobile broadband devices
- Number of mobile broadband-capable connections grew more than 23%
- Hitting 20.7% of the Brazilian device market
- The market ended December with less than 17% share
- In 2011, brazillian mobile broadband market increased more than 82%
- Anatel: 18.6 million new devices
- 242.23 million accesses by the end of 2011
- No. 3 – The beginning of mobile virtual network operators
- MVNO: wireless communications services provider
- Don't have the own the radio spectrum or wireless network infrastructure
- MVNOs: operation start in Brazil
- Porto Seguro and Virgin Mobile/Datora: two first MVNOs
- Can use the MVNE
- No. 4 – LTE Is a reality
- FIFA 2014 World Cup: Push the Brazilian government for new access based LTE
- Sky: cable and satellite television operator. The first Brazilian LTE network
- Vendor: Nokia Siemens Networks
- Nov/2011: Brasilia
- Modem:
- No. 5 – Converged services
- Quad-play: mobile voice and data, fixed broadband, wireline voice and pay-tv
- Signature: four contracts, one to each service
- Complaint: to phone four distinct call centers
- VoIP: Regulaments
- NGN => IMS
- No. 6 – Wi-Fi offloading
- No. 7 – Fiber, fiber, fiber and more fiber
- No. 8 – Cloud for mobile carriers