Vivo (telecommunications company)
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 Former Vivo headquarters in São Paulo | |
| Company type | Brand of Telefônica Brasil |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1993 (as Telesp Celular) April 13, 2003 (as Vivo) |
| Headquarters | São Paulo, Brazil |
Area served | 5,046 municipalities[1]
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Key people |
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 R$6.22 billion (2021)[2] | |
| Owner | Telefônica Brasil (subsidiary of Telefónica) |
Number of employees |  133,473 (2021)[1]
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| Website | vivo |
Vivo (Portuguese for 'Live', as in Live Broadcasting, or 'Alive'), known as Vivo Brazil, is a brand of Telefônica Brasil, a subsidiary of Telefónica and the largest telecommunications company in Brazil. It is headquartered in the Brooklin Novo neighborhood of São Paulo.
History
The company was originally formed as part of
O2
(rest of Europe).
Merged companies
The following operators merged to form Vivo:
Owned by Telefónica
- Telefónica Celular (Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Rio Grande do Sul)
- Telebahia Celular (Bahia)
- Telergipe Celular (Sergipe)
- São Paulo)
Owned by Portugal Telecom
- Telesp Celular (São Paulo)
- Global Telecom (Paraná, Santa Catarina)
- Norte Brasil Telecom (a.k.a. NBT) ()
Acquired by the joint venture
- TCO Celular (Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul)
- Telemig Celular (Minas Gerais)
New operations in the Northeast region
- Vivo (Ceará, Alagoas, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Piauí), since October 2008.
Vivo brand
The Vivo brand was launched on 13 April 2003, as a
Portugal Telecom (PT) and Spain's Telefónica. Until 2006, the group was composed of six holding companies which, as announced in November 2005, merged into a single holding company, "Vivo Participações". The operation was concluded on 22 February 2006. In July 2010, Telefónica bought PT's shares.[4][5]
Today Vivo operates an
CDMA networks coexisted.[6] In the second half of the 2000s, the CDMA network was gradually converted to CDMA2000 in the major cities. The CDMA network was discontinued in November 2012.[7]
In 2012, the fixed services in the state of São Paulo were rebranded from Telefónica to Vivo, unifying the brands for fixed and mobile services since then.
Vivo brands
Vivo owns the following brands:
- Vivo Móvel (mobile service)
- Vivo Fixo (landline service, formerly Telefônica)
- Vivo Internet (ADSL broadband, formerly Speedy)
- Vivo Internet Plus (Cable broadband, formerly Ajato and Vivo Speedy, being discontinued)
- Vivo Fibra (FTTHbroadband, as of 4Q2020, +50% of broadband users)
- Vivo TV (initially satellite television, DTH, formerly Telefônica TV Digital)
- Vivo TV (satellite TV)
- Vivo TV Plus (cable television, formerly TVA, being discontinued as of 4Q2020)
- Vivo TV Fibra (FTTH television service)
- Vivo TV (
See also
References
- ^ a b "Balanço Financeiro 2021 (ref. 2022)" (PDF) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Telefônica Brasil IR. pp. 100, 101, 230, 309. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ a b c "Resultado Financeiro 2021" (PDF) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Telefônica Brasil IR. February 22, 2022. pp. 2, 3, 5, 18. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ "Com 763 milhões de cliente, Vivo lidera mercado com 288 de participação". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). 20 May 2013. Archived from the original on 27 May 2017.
- ^ Woolls, Daniel (28 July 2010). "Telefonica: new deal with PT to buy Brazil's Vivo". The Seattle Times.
- ^ Paul Tobin; Anabela Reis (28 July 2010). "Telefonica Agrees to Buy Vivo Stake for $9.8 Billion". Bloomberg.
- ^ "O que muda com a ida da Vivo para o GSM" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 18 May 2007.
- ^ "Comunicado Vivo". Vivo (in Portuguese). 2013-12-25. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
