São Paulo – Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has grossed R$ 5.85 billion this Tuesday (30th) by auctioning four fourth-generation internet batches with nationwide coverage. Two regional-coverage batches were met with no bids. <\/p>\n
The three leading mobile network operators in Brazil acquired three batches for offering 4G services in national territory. Claro purchased the first batch for R$ 1.947 billion (US$ 798.7 million), i.e. with a 1% premium on the minimum bid set by the federal government. The second batch was bought by TIM, also at a 1% premium for R$ 1.947 billion. The third batch was purchased by Vivo, which paid the minimum amount set in the call for bids: R$ 1.927 billion (US$ 790.5 million).<\/p>\n
Batch five, concerning regional operation in 87 inland municipalities in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo and Minas Gerais was purchased by Algar, with a R$ 29.567 million (US$ 12.129 million) bid. No bids were placed for batches 6, covering the inner state of Paraná, and four, for nationwide coverage.<\/p>\n
According to information from Anatel published by Brazil’s official news agency Agência Brasil<\/em>, the 4G internet service will operate in the 700 MHz spectrum, allowing access to fourth-generation mobile telephony and broadband internet in rural areas. The range is deemed ideal for long-distance coverage. A different spectrum, 2.5 GHz, was auctioned in 2012.<\/p>\n *Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brazil\u2019s leading mobile network operators have acquired batches for offering the service across the entire national territory. No bids were placed for two batches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-innovation"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazil\u2019s leading mobile network operators have acquired batches for offering the service across the entire national territory. No bids were placed for two batches.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}