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Mobile becomes the primary means of Internet access in Brazil

09/15/2016

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Source: Estadão

 According to ICT Households, 89% of connected Brazilians access the network by phone, surpassing computers for the first time 

The mobile is now the primary means of access of Brazilian Internet. It reveals that the ICT Households 2015 conducted by the Center of Information and Coordination of Ponto BR (NIC.br): 89% of connected Brazilians do through a smartphone, surpassing for the first time computers as a priority device for connection - PCs are used for 65% of internet users in the country in 2014, 80% of Brazilians had been using computers for this purpose.. 

"Having the phone as a device that accelerates the digital inclusion is excellent," says Alexandre Barbosa, manager of the Regional Centre of Studies for the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br) connected to NIC.br. However, the expert states that the exclusive access by the device can limit the potential use of the internet. "The mobile limits what you can do, especially in developing skills to work, how to use word processors and spreadsheets, or in the use of e-government applications." 

In 2015, 35% of Internet users accessed the network only by cell phone; in 2014, this proportion was 19%. According to Barbosa, the lower classes of users and with low education are the ones who use the Internet only by phone - are 44% in class C and 65% in all the classes D and E. "Who has more education and income has multiple access platforms: only 8% of users of the class was restricted to the phone, "he says. 

According to the study - which is based on interviews with people who live in more than 23,000 households across the country between November 2015 and June 2016 - 58% of Brazilians have access to the internet, representing an increase of 7 points percentage compared with last year's survey. It was considered "connected" the individual who accessed the Internet at least once in the last three months before the questionnaire response. 

In the measurement of households, however, there was no progress: 51% of Brazilian households have access to the network, compared to 50% last year. For Barbosa, stability in access of households may indicate that "the country may have reached the limit of access under the current prices of fixed broadband." 

In all, 32.8 million households are disconnected in Brazil - of which about 30 million are from families of classes C, D and E, according to the survey points. Economic inequality and urban concentration appear here as digital exclusion factors - in class D and E, only 16% of households are connected to the internet. In rural areas, the figure is 22% - well below the 56% of urban areas. 

Wi-Fi In this context, a type of network that is growing in importance for the Brazilian:.. The Wi-Fi networks According to the survey, 79% of households had Wi-Fi in 2015 - in the 2014 survey, the index was 66%. "This does not mean that Brazilians are buying routers. In large providers, their own Internet access comes a modem router and this is one reason why the user asks for fixed broadband, "says Barbosa. 

In addition, 56% of users say they have used the Internet in someone else's home (friend, neighbor or family), making this site access to the second most popular, especially among people who access the network by mobile phone. With regard to the type of connection used on mobile access via Wi-Fi (87%) exceeded the access via 3G and 4G networks (72%).

 

Source: Idec

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