Brazil's Telecom Market

Context

Every month, Anatel, Brazil's telecom regulator, publishes how many fixed broadband, mobile, pay TV and landline connections exist in the country, company by company and municipality by municipality. The files are huge, with millions of rows, and are meant for people who code. This dashboard brings the four datasets together and answers simple questions: who provides each service, where, to how many customers, and how that has changed over the last ten years.

Use the dashboard tabs to see the industry overview, the ranking of carriers and internet providers, the map by state and city, each company's profile across the four services, and how technologies have evolved. The search box at the top takes you straight to any municipality or state.

What the data shows

Fixed broadband more than doubled and went fiber. There were 25.5 million connections in December 2015 and 55.5 million in December 2025. By September 2026 the total had reached 58.1 million. Fiber optics grew from 1.5 million to 47.1 million connections and now accounts for about 81% of the base, while copper lines, the most common technology in 2015, have all but disappeared.

In broadband, small providers are the majority. The three largest groups (Claro, Vivo and Oi) hold about 40% of connections. The rest is spread across more than 14,000 groups and independent providers, many of them regional. Mobile is the opposite: Vivo, Claro and TIM hold about 97% of the base.

Mobile changed profile. The mobile base stands at 221.3 million lines, down from 246.5 million in 2015, when it was common to carry more than one prepaid SIM card. Postpaid (including hybrid "controle" plans) now accounts for about 58% of lines, and 5G has reached 71.8 million connections, close to one third of the total.

Pay TV and landlines shrank by more than half. Pay TV fell from 19.1 million subscriptions in 2015 to 6.9 million in September 2026, as viewers moved to streaming. Landlines went from 43.4 million to 17.9 million over the same period.

Methodology

• Source. Anatel connection datasets (fixed broadband, mobile, pay TV, landlines and historical totals), updated monthly. The dashboard uses a snapshot of each December plus the latest month available, currently September 2026.
• Counting rules. Mobile includes voice, voice and data, data only and idle lines; M2M (machine to machine) and service points are excluded, as in the official total. Until 2018 Anatel included M2M in the total, so it was removed from every year here to keep the series comparable. For landlines, authorized carriers count in full and, for concessions, only individual lines in service. Broadband and pay TV are counted without filters.
• Companies. Each ranking row is an economic group, when Anatel reports one, or an independent company identified by its tax ID (CNPJ). Each CNPJ is assigned to its current group in every year (pro forma view), so acquisitions and name changes do not break the series.
• Growth. Always over the same ten-year window, December 2015 to December 2025, with the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the same period.
• Validation. National totals for every data point were checked against the totals published by Anatel itself, with a 0.0% difference in all four services.
• Limits. Mergers that change the CNPJ show up as a new company. Many providers only started reporting after the official data collection of 2022, so part of their growth is regularization rather than new customers. For mobile, municipal detail only exists from 2019 onward. The Methodology tab in the dashboard has all the details.