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08/03/2015
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Brazil reaches 273 million mobile
A survey of Consumer Protection of the Brazilian Association (Protest) shows to choose the cell phone plan appropriate to the usage profile can lead to big savings in the account in a year. The evaluated prices are related to plans offered in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
Consumers who make many calls and use the internet on your phone, the superconectados, can save up to R$ 1,716 per year if São Paulo, and R$ 1,596 if they are locals. Among those who speak little and use the Internet, the connected, the savings could reach R$ 571 per year, both in São Paulo and in Rio.
We analyzed three main profiles of telephony and mobile Internet consumers: connected, speaking about 50 minutes per month and use 100 megabytes (MB) of internet; the more connected, with 150 minutes and 500MB of internet connections, and superconectados, averaging 350 minutes of airtime and internet 2 gigabytes (GB).
For the survey, the Protest evaluated the pre-paid, post-paid and control with access to the internet of the five largest operators in the country: Of course, Nextel, Hi, Tim and Vivo and two regional (Algar Telecom and Sercomtel). The organization points out that the only criterion evaluated was the price. The quality of services was not examined.
The Protest also remember that all carriers offer plans with unlimited service calls to mobiles in the same operator, but links to other carriers are costly. The recommendation is to consider which is the operator of the people you would most spoken before choosing the plan.
The organization offers a simulator for consumers of all states can check the value of the plans of the major carriers in accordance with the usage profile. Log in the simulator.
Edition: Luana Lourenço
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Source: Agency Brazil
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