The judicial recovery process Oi goes through and its impact on the company deployment plans caused smaller ISPs to take advantage of the gap in providing FTTH services, especially in states outside of Sao Paulo. Nelson Saito from Furukawa Technical Management and chairman of the Technology Committee of Latam Chapter of the FTTH Council, explained that over a total of 5,900 small suppliers in the Brazilian market, about 1,000 are carrying out fiber to the home deployments.