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Colombia counts 4.1 million broadband connections

Broadband in Colombia grew 91.1% between August 2010 and June 2011, according to a report by the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications. The country jumped from 2.2 million broadband connections to 4.1 million. According to the ministry, this significant advance occurred due to Digital Pan, which aims to reach 8.8 million connections in 2014. Compared to first-quarter 2011, when there were 3.65 million subscribers, broadband penetration increased 11.5%.

In the second quarter of 2011, fixed Internet subscribers made up 61.2% of the broadband base, while 38.8% of subscribers were 3G mobile Internet users. Broadband penetration remains a growing trend, and at the end of the second quarter, it was 8.9%.

The report notes that in June 2011, fixed and mobile Internet subscribers grew by 53.96% compared to second quarter 2010 and 9.24% over the first quarter of 2011. As in the previous quarter, mobile subscribers had a higher growth trend to reach 119.79% over the second quarter of 2010 and 12.82% compared to the first quarter of 2011.

In the second quarter 2011, Colombia counted 2,479,478 subscribers to mobile Internet. It is a variation of 12.82% over the first quarter of 2011 and a 119.79% over the same period previous year. The 3G mobile phone generation has a growing trend in participation in wireless Internet, going from 12.6% in the first quarter of 2011 to 16.9% in the second quarter of that year.
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Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.