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24/08/2012
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Mobile broadband accounts for 60 million connections, double the amount recorded in July 2011.
Brazil finished the month of July with 78.8 million accesses broadband internet, according to the balance of the Brazilian Association of Telecommunications (Telebrasil), announced on Thursday (23). The total accesses reached last month represents a growth of 67% compared to July 2011. Only in 2012, from January to July, 19.2 million new connections were added to the customer base at a rapid activation of a new access per second.
Accesses totaled in July, 60.1 million are mobile broadband. The mobile has doubled in the last twelve months, with the activation of 30.5 million accesses in that period. Of the total mobile broadband connections, 12.4 million are data terminals, as minimodems Internet access. The third generation cellular (3G), including smartphones, totaled 47.7 million, up 109% since July 2011.
The fixed broadband connections reached 18.7 million in July. In the last 12 months, were activated 1.3 million new accesses.
The 3G networks that enable mobile broadband offering, are already installed in 3,040 municipalities, where live 85% of the Brazilian population. This year alone, 390 new municipalities were connected to 3G. The current third generation coverage that is more than three times the obligations of the announcement, which provided municipalities reach 928 in April 2013.
Source: Veja On Line
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