NET was a Brazilian telecommunications company that offered services such as cable television, broadband internet and telephony. The company's NET TV service (cable TV) had around 5.4 million subscribers as of Q2 2012.[1] NET also operated the broadband Internet service NET Vírtua, with over 9 million subscribers as of Q2 2019[2] and telephone over cable (under the NET Fone via Embratel name) with more than 2.5 million subscribers. It is owned by Mexican telecom giant América Móvil. On 11 July 2019, the NET brand was absorbed into the Claro brand, already used by América Móvil for its mobile business in Latin America. In early 2020, the NET brand was relaunched into the Claro NET brand, and was later discontinued in 2022.
NET was launched on 12 December 1991 by Brazil's Roberto Marinho family's as part of their Rede Globo empire. In March 2005, Embratel, a subsidiary of Mexico's Telmex, took a controlling stake in NET, paying 570 million reais.
The company announced in late 2006 that it would buy Vivax, then the nation's second-largest cable company. The transaction was approved in May 2007 and completed in June 2007. Rollout of the Net brand in Vivax areas was completed in December 2007.[citation needed]
The broadband service currently offers the following speeds: 2 Mbps, 15 Mbps, 35 Mbps, 120 Mbps and 240 Mbps in almost every location from the company's coverage area. Also they offer 500 Mbps based on FTTH in some locations.
telecommunications, brazilian, telecommunications, company, that, offered, services, such, cable, television, broadband, internet, telephony, company, service, cable, around, million, subscribers, 2012, also, operated, broadband, internet, service, vírtua, wit. NET was a Brazilian telecommunications company that offered services such as cable television broadband internet and telephony The company s NET TV service cable TV had around 5 4 million subscribers as of Q2 2012 1 NET also operated the broadband Internet service NET Virtua with over 9 million subscribers as of Q2 2019 2 and telephone over cable under the NET Fone via Embratel name with more than 2 5 million subscribers It is owned by Mexican telecom giant America Movil On 11 July 2019 the NET brand was absorbed into the Claro brand already used by America Movil for its mobile business in Latin America In early 2020 the NET brand was relaunched into the Claro NET brand and was later discontinued in 2022 NETCompany typePrivateIndustryTelecommunicationsFounded12 December 1991 1991 12 12 Defunct11 July 2019 2019 07 11 FateAbsorbed into Claro in 2019 and later relaunched into Claro NET in early 2020SuccessorClaro NETHeadquartersSao Paulo BrazilKey peopleJose Felix Chairman ProductsCable television broadband internet VoIPNumber of employees12 000ParentClaro America Movil Websitenet wbr com wbr br Contents 1 History 2 NET Virtua 2 1 Coverage 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHistory editNET was launched on 12 December 1991 by Brazil s Roberto Marinho family s as part of their Rede Globo empire In March 2005 Embratel a subsidiary of Mexico s Telmex took a controlling stake in NET paying 570 million reais The company announced in late 2006 that it would buy Vivax then the nation s second largest cable company The transaction was approved in May 2007 and completed in June 2007 Rollout of the Net brand in Vivax areas was completed in December 2007 citation needed On 10 August 2010 NET became the first cable operator in Brazil to offer all the Discovery Latin America channels Discovery Channel Animal Planet Discovery Kids People Arts Discovery Travel amp Living Discovery Home amp Health Discovery Science Discovery Civilization Discovery Turbo HD Theater and TLC citation needed NET Virtua editThe broadband service currently offers the following speeds 2 Mbps 15 Mbps 35 Mbps 120 Mbps and 240 Mbps in almost every location from the company s coverage area Also they offer 500 Mbps based on FTTH in some locations Coverage edit Currently Virtua is available in many cities of 21 states like Alagoas Amazonas Bahia Ceara Espirito Santo Goias Minas Gerais Maranhao Mato Grosso Mato Grosso do Sul Pernambuco Para Paraiba Parana Piaui Rio Grande do Norte Rio Grande do Sul Santa Catarina Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro plus Distrito Federal In 2018 they started to cover new cities with FTTH instead of HFC as of August 2019 there were 51 cities covered with FTTH by Claro NET See also edit nbsp Companies portal List of internet service providers in BrazilReferences edit teleco com br Teleco teleco com br Teleco External links editOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title NET telecommunications amp oldid 1182848677, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
