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About

GVT is Brazil’s leading alternative telecommunications operator. Boasting strong growth, it offers innovative fixed-telephony, Broadband Internet solutions and products.

The leader in New Generation Services

Headquartered in Curitiba, in the State of Paraná in Brazil, GVT has undergone rapid and continuous development since its founding in 2000. It is deemed a leader in New Generation Services such as high-and very-high-speed broadband, Internet services, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and – starting in the second semester of 2011 – Pay TV via satellite using IPTV (television over IP) technology. It is the fastest-growing telecommunications service provider in Brazil. In 2010, its revenues increased by 43%. GVT offers innovative rate plans at highly competitive prices. Fixed-telephony and broadband services are offered in the form of monthly subscriptions. They account for 74% of Retail revenues in the Retail segment.

Present on Brazil’s largest markets

GVT began its business activities as a competitor to the local Incumbent, in the regions of the Federal District and the States of southern and north-central Brazil and part of the northern regions (corresponding to Region II as determined by the general concession plan that divided the country for the provision of fixed-telephony services). It operates in 97 cities in Brazil, all regions taken together, including Region I (Rio de Janeiro and the Northeast) and Region III (São Paulo). In 2010, GVT launched business activities in thirteen new cities. The company plans to locate in new cities in 2011, in particular in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest market. Its results from operations in cities outside Region II represent an increasingly significant portion of GVT’s overall results – including total revenues and lines-in-service (LIS).

Products

Innovative products and advanced solutions

GVT offers a complete and diversified range of innovative products and advanced solutions in both traditional telephony and Voice over IP, corporate data transmission, broadband, Internet services, and, in the future, pay TV via satellite over IP. They are aimed at all market segments – private individuals, professionals, and small, medium-sized, and large companies. This approach also allows the operator to offer all-in-one formulas for all of these services.

In 2010, GVT launched the Premium family, offering more than 11,000 minutes of local, mobile and long distance calls, and Protect, a security package of services with back up online, parental control, anti spyware and anti-virus.

GVT’s new broadband generation, unlike the one of the Incumbents, delivers ultrahigh speeds of up to 100 Mbits/s at affordable prices. As the market shifts dramatically towards broadband, the company’s competitive advantages will continue to grow. The company also increased the minimum speed of its broadband service from 3 to 5 Mbits/s, making it the highest entry-level broadband speed on the market.

Clientele

Residential customers and SMEs

GVT provides its residential and SME customers with local and long-distance fixed telephony and broadband services, long-distance services to customers holding lines supplied by other operators in cities in which it does not have local access presence, and Internet services under the POP brand, its Internet service provider, with network connections via the switched telephone network and via the broadband lines.

GVT also extends its offering with content services, e-mail and other multimedia services such as blogs, photoblogs, and hosting services, whether or not customers are subscribers to its Internet access services. The company also offers Voice over IP services under the VONO brand to residential and SMEs customers, in Brazil and abroad, regardless of the operator providing their broadband connection.

Corporate customers

GVT provides high-end, innovative products and services to middle-to large companies. The company offers managed services and integrated and personalized solutions from conventional telephony to VoIP services, including Internet services, private data networks, and hosting.

Network

Brazil’s most modern network

Designed with the aid of the most advanced technologies, the GVT network is Brazil’s most modern. With one of the country’s most extensive local access networks and long-distance fiber backbones, the company is positioned as the leader in New Generation Services and is able to extend its presence nationwide.

Its network’s NGN architecture, unique in Brazil, is based on FTTN (Fiber To The Node) technology. This allows GVT to provide its customers with integrated, flexible, unique services, with very rapid deployment times. Proximity to its customer’s premises allows the operator to supply the best quality performance of any broadband Internet service on the market. GVT’s ADSL speeds are faster than those of the majority of its competitors. Thanks to the modernity and flexibility of its network, it is the only Brazilian operator that can offer broadband speeds up to 100 Mbits/s to the general public.

Big share in portability of fixed-line numbers

GVT is the leader for portability of fixed-line telephone numbers, with a 58% market share in the cities where it operates. Since September 2008, thanks to portability, Brazilian companies and residential subscribers can change their telecommunications operators and still keep their telephone number. More than 872,000 GVT lines are currently in service thanks to this system.

In figures 2010

• Present in 97 cities in Brazil
• More than 872,000 lines in service thanks to the portability of fixed-line numbers
• Its revenues increased by 43% in 2010
• Broadband delivering ultrahigh speeds of up to 100 Mbits/s
• Brazil’s largest broadband service penetration (88%)

Management

Board of Directors:

Jean-Bernard Lévy
Chairman of the Board

Amos Genish
Vice-Chairman of the Board

Caroline Le Masne de Chermont
Director

Régis Turrini
Director

Philippe Capron
Director

Officers:

Amos Genish
CEO

Rodrigo Ciparrone
CFO

Gustavo Pinto Gachineiro
General Counsel and Head of Human Resources