Technology exceed the fixed access in the country in 2011.
In Brazil, 1Mbps costs $ 120, 5 Mbps sells for $ 97 in Portugal.
Quick access to wireless Internet is available for 62.3% of the population, according to a survey released on Wednesday (2). The survey predicts that the technology of mobile broadband to exceed fixed access in the country in 2011, with two-year delay for the media world.
According to the survey produced by the Chinese telecommunications equipment Huawei Teleco consulting and by the end of the second quarter, 11.3% of municipalities in the country had access broadband service offered by mobile at least one of the four major mobile operators : Yes, Hi, TIM and Vivo. The index includes 97.3% of cities with more than 500 thousand
habitants.
In terms of users, the survey said that at the end of the first half had 4 million hits, which corresponds to a rate of 2.1 per 100 inhabitants, below the world average of five hits.
The service depends on mobile broadband 3G technology, which still has low market share in Brazil, the high price of handsets compatible with this technology and the low availability of the service for users of prepaid segment, the study said.
According to the survey, the average price in Brazil to download packages of volumes of 500 megabytes of data is above those charged in other Latin American countries. While the country is practiced an average of U.S. $ 76, in Chile the figure drops to the equivalent of R $ 58.50. Mexico are U.S. $ 56.10 and in Argentina for $ 35.40.
In terms of speed, the study cites that packages of 1 megabit per second (Mbps) cost on average U.S. $ 119.9 in Brazil, while Vodafone charges $ 97 for 5 Mbps in Portugal.
In 2007, only 1.7% of total mobile phones in Brazil were 3G, compared to a participation of over 10% worldwide.
Huawei estimates, however, that mobile broadband will become the fastest growing service in Brazil, with more than 60 million hits in 2014, soon surpassing the number of accesses to the Internet via broadband.
In the second quarter of 2009 were 4 million accesses to the Internet through mobile phones and wireless modems in Brazil, representing an increase of 33% over the first quarter, the study says.
