NET (telecommunications)

NET

Company type	Private
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	12 December 1991 (1991-12-12)
Defunct	11 July 2019 (2019-07-11)
Fate	Absorbed into Claro in 2019 and later relaunched into Claro NET in early 2020
Successor	Claro NET
Headquarters	São Paulo , Brazil
Key people	José Félix, (Chairman)
Products	Cable television, broadband internet, VoIP
Number of employees	12,000
Parent	Claro (América Móvil)
Website	net.com.br

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.