Redes, território e competitividade: a estratégia das empresas de telefonia celular no Estado do Pará

Abstract

In this work, we investigate the territorialities of the cell phone telephone mobile companies that operate in the State of Pará. These companies are Vivo, Tim, Amazônia Celular and Oi. In pursuing this purpose, we trace a theoretical rout that deal with two categories of analysis: the network and the territory, both marked by two other derived concepts: the territoriality and what we call circuits of power. Our corpus is composed by some information collected in the cell phone telephone mobile companies placed in Pará and the official data from Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (ANATEL), more specifically, the national list of Radiobase Stations (2007). The methodology that we adopt consists of the collect of secondary data as well as the elaboration of maps, graphs and pictures based on the reality of Pará State. These factors are analyzed in order to define the scene of the competition, the circuits of power and the privileged areas. We verified that the cell phone telephone mobile companies use the territory as a market segment, putting the citizen in the same status of a consumer. The companies select its areas of performance based on economic criteria, privileging the areas of higher attractive for the accumulation of the capitals and, also, the localities managed by big economic groups, as the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD).