- 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
- 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
- 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
- Oi, Tim and Claro: plans to implement Wi-Fi hot spots to offload data from their 3G networks
- Reasons: costs associated with spectrum licenses and infrastructure
- Main objective: to relieve data traffic from 3G networks that are facing congestion problems
- Global Mobile Traffic will grow 26x (to 6.3 EB/Month)
- Video will be 66% until 2015
- Mobile devices: 5 billions
- No. 7 – Fiber, fiber, fiber and more fiber
- FTTH
- Fiber-to-the-building, fiber for backhaul and fiber for the backbone
- Support for mobile data traffic expected until 2014
- 2014: will be the “World Cup of connected mobile devices” and it’s necessary to prepare the infrastructure
- Telefonica: announced more than one million houses will be able to be connected by fiber by the end of 2011
- TIM acquired AES Atimus and its 5.5 million kilometers fiber network
- Claro: June 2011 - announced investments to expand its fiber network to 80,790 kilometers
- No. 8 – Cloud for mobile carriers
- Some solutions: Apple’s iCloud, Google Music Beta and Amazon Cloud Drive
- Oi: started to provide cloud computing services to large enterprises - synergy with Portugal Telecomm
- Claro: planning to launch mobile cloud services in areas such as music, video, books and file storage
- Some services: home security monitoring, remote health care access, and smart-grid and energy monitoring.
- References:
- www.networkessolutiionsforum.com
- Agilent




