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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