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04/29/2015
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Computers connect 42.4% of online households; data is 2013.
In five states, smartphones account for most connections.
Teen uses tablet to access the Internet while talking on the phone. (Photo: AJ PHOTO / BSIP / AFP)
Computers were still the most used device to connect to the Internet in Brazil in 2013, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
The data is the National Survey by Household Sampling (PNAD), referring to 2013, made with the Ministry of Communications, and released on Wednesday (29).
The institute found that computers are solely responsible for connections in 42.4% of homes. Residents of 11.5% of homes used only cell phones and tablets to connect.
According Jully Bridge, income coordination and technical work of the specialist institute IBGE, "compared to estimates collected by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2013, the percentage of households with internet access in Brazil, according to the estimate IBGE (48%) is below the average for European countries (76.2%) and America (54.6%). "
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By 2013, IBGE only recorded the connections made with computer and now started to record the hits made with smartphones, tablets, connected TVs and other devices.
The online homes, 88% used the computer to access the network; 53.6% used mobile phones; and 17.2%, tablets.
According to IBGE, 7.1 million homes have tablets and 5.4 million of them were used to get on the internet in 2013.
Internet access was present in 31.2 million Brazilian households.
PCs have advantage over mobile devices in 21 states plus the Federal District. What varies is the index: it is higher in Rondônia (61.1% vs. 11.5%) and lowest in the Federal District (31.8% x 6.4%).
Mobile computers hits in 5 states
. "We observed that in the North, the use of mobile phones as Internet access vehicle exceeded the use of the computer," says Bridge In five states, the dispute is best for the cell, responsible for most of the connections: Sergipe, Pará, Roraima, Amazonas and Amapá.
The latter is where mobile devices are the source connection for the highest percentage of homes, 43%; the computer reaches 11.9%.
Connection forms
In addition to the devices used to connect to the internet, the IBGE analyzed the forms of connection. Although broadband is a reality to 30.5 billion houses (97.7% of total), dial-up is the form of access to 725,000 homes.
While fixed broadband is present in 77.1% of households, the mobile reaches 43.5%. The northern region is the only one where the mobile internet coverage is greater than the fixed. Aside from Rondônia, this is what occurs in all northern states.
Pedro Araújo, the Ministry of Communications project manager, said the addition of computed connections in 2014 "will have very significant impact in terms of access."
"We did not take the 2014 data yet, but we believe we have added more than 50 million access. I can not say by operators, there may even be that interest [digital inclusion], but regulatory obligation, until 2019, all municipalities will have to have mobile broadband, "he says.
Age access
In a cut of Pnad from age groups, the IBGE found that people between 15 and 17 years and 18 to 19 reported the highest rates of Internet users in 2013, with 76% and 74.2%, respectively. In the age group between 40 and 49 years, 44.4% of total accesses the internet.
Only 21.6% of those over 50 years connects to the web. Among those who have over 60 years, the percentage of connected reached 12.6%. Although seem low, the index of elderly people with Internet access has more than doubled since 2008, when only 5.7% of them were online.
By income
According to the IBGE, access varies according to the network of people. The number of connected Brazilians ranged from 49.1% among those who either have no income or receive up to a quarter of the minimum wage, 95.7% of people over ten minimum wage.
"We realize that the higher the household income per capita, the greater the number of people with mobile," said Araujo, the Ministry of Communications.
Source: G1
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