5 g will only press contributions of live in 2020

Owner of the brand Alive, Telefónica Brazil doesn't start to invest significant amounts in 5 g technology from 2020, said the President of the company, Eduardo Navarro, during conference call held yesterday (30). "All the investments we're making in fiber optic let us prepared for the 5 g, but don't expect major investments [for] next year. Maybe in 2020 ", signaled the Executive, indicating that the novelty will press the not operator capex in the short term. Still, Navarro projects a rise in contributions from the company, which presented results for the third quarter yesterday (30). According to Navarro, the operator capex should around R $9 billion in 2019 and 2020. After 2018, the prospect is about R $8.5 billion in contributions, of which $6.079 billion have already been invested R until the month of September. The value represents 14% high in nine months and 9.4% in the third quarter (to $2.393 billion). The increase covers 4 g and 4 g + were the foci, alongside the expansion of the network of fiber to the home (FTTH) consumer. Also in the third quarter, the company's net revenue was lower than expected by the market, registering lower 1% and adding R $10.777 billion. According to report released by BTG Pactual, were still "disappointing" mobile services revenues, which also retreated 1% this quarter – to R $6.293 billion. The Investment Bank ranked the prepaid segment as primarily responsible for the crash. In a year, the average monthly spending of users (ARPU) of category R $13.5 R withdrew $11.6. Already the total prepaid users base melted 10% in the period, to 35 million in chips. Vice President of the company, Christian Gebara linked the fall in revenue from macroeconomic issues such as unemployment. The Executive also said to expect more "rationality" of competitors in the coming months, as opposed to the "aggression" in prices experienced in the prepaid segment. According to Gebara, tele's "avoiding being so aggressive" on mode, focusing on deals that encourage the migration of customers to prepaid and postpaid hybrid plans. Between customers, the base of the post company has grown 10.5%, reaching 39.4 million active chips at the end of September. Among them, the ARPU remained stable at an interval of one year: $51,5. Generally speaking, the carrier recorded a net profit of RS $3.168 billion in the quarter (high of 159%) and R $7.339 billion in nine months (+ 139%). The numbers were strongly driven by a one-off factor – or the positive effect of R $1.3 billion in tax credits generated by a decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (STJ) which benefited the company by excluding the GST calculation base of the contributions of the PIs/Cofins. Still in the third quarter, Ebitda of tele grew 5.3% (to $3.871 billion), benefited by a "solid cost-cutting effort," as words of BTG Pactual; I a year, the opex fell 4.2%. After the dissemination of the results, the common shares of Telefónica Brazil in B3 8.6% and preferred rose, 14.3%.