Tele Norte Leste (Telemar)

Synopsis

Archived report: this report was archived in August 2005 and was last updated in October 2004. Tele Norte Leste, the holding company for the Telemar group, trades on the São Paulo Stock Exchange and NYSE, and is controlled by a group of Brazilian investors. The main operator, Telemar Norte Leste, is the incumbent fixed-line provider for Region 1 (northern, north-eastern and south-eastern Brazil). Telemar is the largest telecom operator in the country in terms of turnover and number of installed lines, covering around 65% of the territory and over half the population. Telemar also provides nationwide domestic and international long-distance telephony since July 2002, as well as mobile and Internet services through its subsidiaries Oi and Pegaso.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Company information
  
  • 2.1 Financial results – 2003
    
  • 2.2 Financial results – first half 2004
    
  • 2.3 Company history
    
• 3. Telemar group companies
  
  • 3.1 Telemar Norte Leste (TMAR)
    
    • 3.1.1 Telemar Network
      
    • 3.1.2 Telemar Broadband
      
  • 3.2 Oi
    
  • 3.3 Pegasus Telecom SA
    
  • 3.4 TNL Contax SA
    
  • 3.5 TNL.Acesso SA
    
  • 3.6 TNL Net Participações
    
• 4. Services
  
  • 4.1 Fixed-line telephone services
    
  • 4.2 Public telephone services
    
  • 4.3 Mobile telephone services
    
  • 4.4 Data transmission and transport network services
    
  • 4.5 Other services
    
• 5. Other developments
  
  • 5.1 Year 2003
    
  • 5.2 Year 2004
    
• 6. Related reports
  
• 7. Contact details
  

• Table 1 – Revenue overview – 1996 - 2003
• Table 2 – Revenue by segment – 2003
• Table 3 – Revenue by subsidiary – 2003
• Table 4 – Telemar network overview – 1996 - 2004
• Table 5 – ADSL and ISDN subscribers – 2001 - 2004
• Table 6 – Oi subscribers - 2002 - 2004

• Exhibit 1 – Tele Norte Leste (Telemar) at a glance
• Exhibit 2 – PSTN subsidiaries prior to reorganisation
• Exhibit 3 – Telemar group companies – December 2003