Standalone 5G should be made available next Monday in Aracaju, Boa Vista, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Maceió, São Luís, and Teresina, per telecom authority Anatel.
Claro, Tim, and Vivo are to switch on 102 stations in Fortaleza, 63 in Recife, and 33 in Natal by Nov. 28. The signal is already available in 12 other Brazilian capitals.
The auction encompassed four radio frequency bandwidths—700 MHz, 2.3 GHz, 3.5 GHz, and 26 GHz, with specific market purposes, split into a number of batches.
However, to access the technology, users must have a compatible mobile device. In the Brazilian market, only one compatible model is available—Motorola Edge—at more than $940 at its official store.
The proportion of Brazilians aged ten and older—181 billion people—who use the internet rose from 64.7 to 69.8 percent 2016–2017. These are nearly 10 million new users from the second half year of 2017 to that of the following year. Figures were released today (Dec.