Internet users go up in Brazil
December 20th, 2011 - 3:13 pm ICT by IANSRio De Janeiro, Dec 20 (IANS) The number of broadband Internet users in Brazil hit 55.4 million in November, up 68 percent from the same period last year, authorities said Monday.
A total of 22.4 million new users were registered in the past 12 months, said the Brazilian Telecommunications Association (Telebrasil).
Among the broadband internet users, 38.9 million access the service through mobile equipment as the number of increasingly popular smartphones and laptops doubled over the past year. The rest 16.5 million are conventional cable users, reported Xinhua.
The smartphone users in Brazil have surged 130 percent in the past 12 months since the country launched a National Broadband Internet Plan in 2011 to provide affordable broadband service to all Brazilians by 2014.
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