Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel completed its spectrum auction yesterday, with Brazilian mobile operator Vivo and telco Claro dominating the final day of bidding.
While the first day of bidding was on lots for the highly sought-after Band H…
Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel completed its spectrum auction yesterday, with Brazilian mobile operator Vivo and telco Claro dominating the final day of bidding.
While the first day of bidding was on lots for the highly sought-after Band H spectrum, the lots on offer yesterday were for leftover spectrum that had been left unsold previously.
Telefonica-owned Vivo, Brazil’s largest mobile operator, spent over R$ 1bn (US$587m) on 23 lots of the leftover spectrum. It paid an average premium of 73.55% for these lots, although the highest premium it paid for a single lot was 964.44%.
The Claro group, which is owned by Carlos Slim’s America Movil, won fifteen of the lots of the leftover spectrum through its two company brands of Americel and Claro.
The Claro group paid over R$173m (US$102m) for these 15 lots in total. It paid an average premium of 48.29%, with the highest premium being 115.7%
The other winners of the leftover spectrum were TIM, which paid over R$80m (US$48m) for eight lots, and Nextel, which paid almost R$207m (US$122m) for a single lot.
This was a stark contrast to yesterday, when Nextel dominated the Band H spectrum auction, winning 11 out of the 13 Band H lots.
Over the two-day auction, the big loser seems to be Oi, which failed to win a single lot.
The winning bids at the auction totalled over R$2.7bn (US$1.6bn), including Band H.
