Brazil counts 27.9 million mobile broadband users

Mobile broadband access is increasing in Brazil. At the end of first half of 2011, Brazil had counted 43.7 million broadband access connections, according to a just-released survey from the Brazilian Telecommunication Association Telebrasil. The major part of this total is registered as mobile users – 27.9 million versus 15.8 million of fixed-broadband connections. The mobile broadband base grew 67% in the period compared to the year before. Modems represent 6.7 million connections and the number of 3G cellphones in use totaled 21.3 million.
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