Dear Crabcakes,
I wish to know how many cities - municípios - in Brazil still
lack Internet connection, if any. Of course most Brazilian cities have
access to Internet, but some small cities may be still out of its
reach. I need to know how many they are. Just that, no need of other
information about the Web in Brazil. Can you find that for me?
Thank you very much, Wayworn |
Request for Question Clarification by
crabcakes-ga
on
17 May 2006 21:25 PDT
Oi Wayworn,
I'm working on your question - just wanted to let you know!
Regards, Crabcakes
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Request for Question Clarification by
crabcakes-ga
on
19 May 2006 13:46 PDT
Oi Wayworn,
You certainly have a way of asking difficult questions!
So far, I have not been able to locate more current data than 2002. In
2002, 350, out of 6,000 municípios had internet access. I know you
wanted only this information, and not additional "stuff", but I found
some interesting related information, that I could not resist
including! I will continue to search for recent information, but keep
in mind that a lot of this is considered proprietary marketing
information. I have included some links near the end of the answer, to
some reports that can be purchased, that MAY contain more current
data. In keeping with our usual exchanges, I'm posting what I have
gathered so far.
Brasil
Population: 184,284,898
Internet Users: 25,900,000
Per Cent Population (Penetrations) 14.1 %
Per Cent users in South America: 47.3 %
Use Growth (2000-2005) 418.0 %
(Figures updated December, 2005)
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats2.htm
?? since out of an estimated 6,000 municipalities in Brazil, about 350
have Internet access now.)? 2002
?One of Brazil?s oldest and most comprehensive telecenter projects can
be found on the outskirts of São Paulo, in one of the poorest and
notoriously most dangerous areas of the city. Sampa.org, which will
celebrate its second anniversary in July, 2002, has become a model for
other telecenter programs which have opened subsequently. The project
combines the efforts of city government (under the leadership of the
leftist Workers? Party), local NGOs and private companies (including
Microsoft, Lexmark and the Internet service provider 3Com) to not only
provide free Internet access and informatics courses but to reshape
democracy at a very grassroots level. In July of 2000, it opened ten
telecenters in Capão Redondo, a favela located far from the city
center.?
http://www.aaplac.org/library/AlbernazAmi03.pdf
According to this article, 7.3% of Brazilian households have internet access, 2001
http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/eng/digitaldivide/ch2.html
Depending on which statistics you believe, only four to seven percent
of Brazilians are online. 2 While the percentage is higher in major
cities such as São Paulo, where the country?s information technology
sector is concentrated, the picture is starkly different in remote
areas, where the majority of residents have never touched a computer.
A great part of these remote areas are still without telephone lines,
which have traditionally enabled Internet access. Today, the rate is
23 lines for every 100 inhabitants?doubling the figure from just a few
years ago.3 Yet even where the infrastructure is in place, the cost of
a
computer and an Internet Service Provider (ISP) still render access
out of reach for many
Brazilians, given the country?s median income level. Since the
deregulation of the telecommunications sector, the cost of access has
been falling?to around $10 per month today, down from $40 in 1998.4
Free ISPs such as the popular Internet Gratis (iG) have also emerged;
however, the quality of service with such providers tends to be
unreliable (i.e., attempts to connect to the Internet often fail).?
http://www.aaplac.org/library/AlbernazAmi03.pdf
May, 2003
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/geographics/article.php/2205881
Feb. 2005 ?Brazil continued to show the fastest decline in at-home
surfing, dropping approximately 400,000 users (3.6 percent). Sweden
had the second-fastest drop, falling roughly 135,000 home users (2.9
percent). Both countries also had the largest declines in the period
from August to November.?
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/geographics/article.php/3490516
Nov. 2005 ?Brazil experienced the largest growth, with 800,273 new
active users for the period. That's an increase of 6.82 percent. Home
Internet users in Spain jumped 5.46 percent to 572,349, and France
went up 4.27 percent, or 689,693 users.?
See the chart for more stats.
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/geographics/article.php/3574036
?Em janeiro de 2004, por exemplo, o número de usuários no Brasil
estava estimado em 31.633.490 (31,6 milhões), de acordo com a Network
Wizards.?
http://www.cg.org.br/faq/informacoes-02.htm
1998 ?According to calculations based on World Bank figures, 1.2 % of
the Brazilian population has an Internet connection. The number of
Internet hosts has increased from 17,429 in 1996 to 131,000 at the end
of 1997. This figures have led to very optimistic expectations about
the growth potential of the Brazilian Internet market. Brazil indeed
has the largest number of Internet hosts in Latin America, followed
closely by Argentina, and the third largest in the Americas (CGIB,
undated; Tigre et al., 1999: 20-21). This does not necessarily mean
that Internet use or access is widespread in Brazil.?
http://www.isanet.org/archive/riethof2.html
2001 ?Brazil is far and away the leader among Latin American countries
in terms of Internet access. The country's 3.9 million Internet users
comprise 40 percent of the online population in the region, according
to a report by eMarketer, which tracks Internet statistics.
Internet connection rates in Brazil are among the cheapest in Latin
America. Unlimited Internet access costs $18 a month, compared to
twice that amount in Mexico.
Nevertheless, in a country of 168 million people there's enormous room for growth.?
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41785,00.html
2001?"Twelve months ago, countries like Japan or Brazil hardly
registered in the DSL totals," said John Bosnell, editor of the DSL
Worldwide Directory. "But now these markets are starting to mature.
For example, in the last six months, Brazil has overtaken the U.K. in
terms of DSL subscribers.?
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/broadband/article.php/905351
?The use of computers in public service, which is still limited, has
during the last decade been overcoming barriers such as lack of
resources and infrastructure in its computerization process. In order
to help Brazilian municipalities in overcoming these obstacles by
providing high-speed internet access to public service, Star One - the
largest satellite-based communications company in Latin America -
takes part in the VII March to Brasilia in Defense of Municipalities.?
?Presently, Star One already services hundreds of Brazilian
municipalities, and intends to double this base until the year through
a partnership with the National Confederation of Municipalities
("Confederação Nacional de Municípios - CNM"), responsible for the
Mayors March.?
http://www.starone.com.br/english/imprensa/imprensa_18032004.php
?the upper 15% of the population seems to be rapidly accepting the
Internet and integrating it in to their lifestyle, but the rest of the
population faces large economic, social, and infrastructure barriers
to gain access to the Internet.
The current divide in access mirrors the country's economic division.
The situation in Brazil is quite distinct. Among the top 15% of the
population there is a very rapid penetration of Internet usage (31.7%
in 2001), as displayed in table 1.[i] However, the rates of
penetration among the general population of Brazil are sparse (4.8% in
2001), as illustrated in table 2.[ii]?
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tilan/reports/rtf359/brazil1.html
?Anatel, the Brazilian version of the FCC, reports that Brazil had
27.8 million main telephone lines and a line penetration of about 17
lines per 100 inhabitants at the end of 1999. ANATEL projects that
figure to rise to 28 per 100 inhabitants by the end of 2003 and to 33
by the end of 2005. ANATEL reported 713,000 public telephones at the
end of 1999, to rise to 981,000 by the end of 2001.[i]
The data communications sector, while still small, has grown
essentially unregulated for a few years, attracting many new providers
to the sector. Entry is relatively easy, requiring an application to
ANATEL and a modest licensing fee. While still young, the market is
also increasingly lucrative, with analysts predicting growth rates of
about 50 - 60 percent. [ii]
Despite strong growth in the data communications market, it is still
overshadowed by the phenomenal growth in demand for access to the
Internet. This sector is attracting attention from not only the
traditional telecom operators, but increasingly from pay television
operators, who were recently authorized by ANATEL to provide
high-speed Internet access via cable modems. The Yankee Group
estimates that there were 8.8 million Internet users in Brazil by the
end of 1999, for a penetration rate of about five percent. Currently,
only 7 percent of Brazilian households are online. However, Brazil has
already demonstrated a greater ability to absorb new technologies than
other Latin countries, and that number could increase to 17 percent if
PC leasing and flat phone rates are introduced. The Yankee Group
predicts that there will be 35 million Internet users in Brazil by the
end of 2003, for a penetration rate of about 20 percent.?
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tilan/reports/rtf359/brazil2.html
2001 ?These numbers indicate that only a minute fraction of the
populace has access to the telecom infrastructure nationwide. The
situation with computers is similar. Only 2 in 100 have a computer.?
?In September 2000, the most recent version of the IBOPE media use
report was published, which outlined the current usage and adoption
rates in the nine major metropolitan areas in Brazil. Only 19% of the
urban population has access to the Internet via a computer, and 48% of
these users belong to class A & B. The interesting change was that the
research data indicated that 1.9 million Brazilians intended to
purchase a mobile phone that allowed WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) to
the Internet, and even more interesting is that the distribution of
those accessing WAP across the social classes is close to even. Of
those who have access to WAP 31% belong to classes A & B, 35% in class
C, and 34% in classes D & E.[iv]
This shift shows that there may be a way to move beyond some of the
major barriers to Internet access. The other major pattern in the
research showed that of classes A&B, 72% of those are male. This would
indicate that the vast majority of affluent women have yet to discover
the Internet.?
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tilan/reports/rtf359/brazil1.html
2004 ?With a population of 156 million people, approximately 16% of
them have Internet access. Only 1/3rd of Brazilians own computers. For
those who are online, home access is the most popular. Internet users
are mostly urban ? 45% of all Internet users are in the greater Sao
Paolo area, for example.?
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2004/05/brazil_limited.html
?Interest in the Internet has increased significantly in Brazil in the
past few years, although from a low base. According to Pyramid
Research, there were 20m Internet users in Brazil in January 2004,
equivalent to 11.5% of the population, up from 8.1% a year earlier and
only 6.3% in 2002. In an effort to broaden access for those without
home personal computers (PCs), the government has undertaken a
programme to install free-access Internet booths in 4,000 post
offices.?
http://www.ebusinessforum.com/index.asp?layout=newdebi&country_id=BR&channelid=6&country=Brazil&title=Doing+e-business+in+Brazil
National Ranking by Domain
http://www.e-commerce.org.br/STATS.htm#C
ISP Providers
http://www.thelist.com/countrycode/55/
I?m pretty sure this report, in Portuguese, discusses the number of IP
addresses in Brasil:
http://www.cg.org.br/infoteca/documentacao/regrasip.htm
http://www.cg.org.br/infoteca/documentacao/desenvolvimento.htm#3.%20Provedores%20de%20Acesso
?A conexão a Internet das Superintendência Regionais e seus municípios
sede e dos demais Municípios contemplados, serão feitos através de
linhas discadas a Provedores de Acesso, estando estes Provedores o
mais próximo dos municípios, avaliando os recursos por eles oferecidos
e minimizando os custos.?
http://www.datasus.gov.br/rnis/projetos/sumarios/SumarioES.html
?Particularly important for my analysis is the situation of the
telecommunication infrastructure. Brazil's telecommunications are
controlled by state-owned companies since early 70's [7] . During
their first decade those companies were quite successful in
modernizing the telecommunications system, but in the 80's most of
their investment capital was used by the government to pay for the
nation's debt. The result is a situation where the provision of
telephone lines is severely constrained, presently with an average of
6.8 lines for each 100 inhabitants (compared to 56 in the U.S.A.).
The service itself is of low quality. Most of the lines are old with
digital switching responsible for less than 22%. A typical downtown
line can be easily corrupted by noise, making impossible the
connection of computers by modem even at very low rates of about 1200
bps. The reduced size of the middle classes makes the provision of
wired cable TV economically unfeasible, and the few "cable" services
use satellite transmission shared by small networks of up to 50
users.?
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/p/pinhanez/publications/netbrasil.htm
Solar Powered internet
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:QSX-LU241pQJ:www.self.org/news/Brazil_Press_Release.pdf+internet+access++%2B+rural++brazil&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=11
?Fixed-line teledensity is 22.4%, similar to Brazil and Chile, and
about 4% higher than the Latin American average, but there remains a
marked discrepancy between urban and rural areas. While fixed lines
have stagnated, mobile telephony has boomed, and Argentina's mobile
phones outnumber fixed line in service by more than 2.5. Mobile
penetration is on a par with Brazil's, higher than most other South
America countries,?
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/05/05/1639210.htm
This company is trying to bring internet access to favelas throughout Brasil.
http://www.vivafavela.com.br/
?-- Internet revenues increased 24.3% period-over-period due to higher
managed security services and the expansion of internet access to
corporate customers. Brazil, USA and Argentina were the subsidiaries
with the highest growth.?
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060516005469&newsLang=en
?Despite sluggish economic conditions, Internet penetration has
reached nearly 10.5 percent of the total Brazilian households.
However, this growth is restricted to upper income households as high
costs and income inequalities currently make these services 'out of
reach' for over 50 percent of the Brazilian population. In the coming
years, the market is likely to witness fierce competition between
incumbents (DSL providers) enjoying capillarity in key urban areas and
cable operators, which will eventually lead to further market
expansion.?
?Additionally, the tendency of participants to concentrate on specific
geographic locations - for instance, the southern and main capital -
has left many regions underserved. However, to counter competition and
extend market reach, they will be concentrating on these
underdeveloped regions in the coming years. Riding on this, Brazil
will continue to experience growth, accounting for nearly half of the
total Latin American subscribers.?
http://www.gii.co.jp/english/fs21882_broadband_internet.html
?Gilat?s SkyEdge offers a comprehensive solution for rural
communication, enabling public toll-quality voice services efficiently
over a satellite. In addition, broadband Internet services may also be
bundled in the future using the same platform. The solution supports
the existing Telefonica payphones, thus reducing the cost of the
deployment. One of the key advantages of the SkyEdge is its seamless
and quick integration into the national SS7 network, including
customization to the local Brazilian signaling variant.
?After witnessing Gilat?s fast, efficient deployment of this VSAT
network, it was evident how they came to achieve a global leadership
position in this market,? said Jose Luis Dutra, TELESP?s Engineering &
Planning Director. ?We were particularly impressed with the speed with
which they deployed the entire network solution. It took only 90 days
from signing of the contract to its full implementation."?
http://www.wirelessinsightasia.com/article.asp?id=975
Internet in Brasil Statistics
http://www.zonalatina.com/Zldata379.htm
This company may be able to obtain the exact information you are seeking.
http://www.gii.co.jp/custom_study_en.shtml
This report has it all! Total cost US$687.50
http://www.budde.com.au/publications/annual/latin-america/latin-america-overviews.html
This report is also for sale:
http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/snapshots.jsp?doi=10.1337/br330175
More data for a fee:
http://www.emarketer.com/SiteSearch.aspx?__EVENTTARGET=&__EVENTARGUMENT=&__VIEWSTATE=dDwtMTgwNTgzOTcxOTs7bDxjdGxUb3BVQzppbWdidG5TZWFyY2hHbztjaGtCcm93c2VJbmNsdWRlQXJ0aWNsZXM7Y2hrQnJvd3NlSW5jbHVkZUNoYXJ0cztjaGtCcm93c2VJbmNsdWRlUmVwb3J0cztidG5Ccm93c2U7YnRuQnJvd3NlMjs%2BPjrzHpGGqBdFnzKD0SrRw7bY1%2Bg%2B&ctlTopUC%3AtxtSearchArg=&trvGeographyBrowse_SelectedNode=p48&trvGeographyBrowse_ScrollData=0%2C0&trv
GeographyBrowse_ExpandedList=&trvGeographyBrowse_MoveEvents=&trvGeographyBrowse_EditEvents=&trvGeographyBrowse_ValueChangeEvents=&trvGeographyBrowse_CheckedList=&trvGeographyBrowse_MultipleSelectedList=&ddlBrowseSortItem=Date&ddlBrowseSortOrder=Descending&txtRefineSearchArg=&chkBrowseIncludeArticles=on&chkBrowseIncludeCharts=on&chkBrowseIncludeReports=on&ddlBrowsePageSize=10&btnBrowse.x=21&btnBrow
se.y=5&txtGoToPage=&txtGoToPage2=&txtRefineSearchArg2=&ctlBottomUC%3AtxtHiddenDoNotUse=&pathID=423
Most of the data on this site is restricted, but you may be able to
contact them in Portuguese!
http://pr.ptt.br/particip.html
http://www.cgi.br/infoteca/index.htm
?Indeed, Business Week magazine calls Brazil a "hot incubator for tech
startups," noting that the country's information technology industry
has been growing 10 percent a year since 2000. Exports of high-tech
goods and services should rise from around $500 million in 2004 to $2
billion in 2007.4 This comes as little surprise to those in the know.
"Brazil is a place relatively unburdened by legacy infrastructure,"
says Robert Payne, Vice President of IBM Global Services, Brazil. "As
a result, it is in many ways ideally prepared to be an on demand
environment."
http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/ondemand/us/growth/brazil/newbrazil.shtml
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Clarification of Question by
wayworn-ga
on
21 May 2006 06:42 PDT
"You certainly have a way of asking difficult questions!"
Sorry, Crabcakes, I had no idea where it would be from very
easy to very difficult.
That 2002 estimate of 350 cities is of course useless; we
think the number may be well over 5000 now. I will have someone
visiting those sites to see what we can find. As I told you, it is not
very important, and I have to measure efforts here as in any business.
It would just be nice if we could show that we are aware of the
number, with the additional information on broadband vs dial-up. We
are sure that the number is not a secret, so to speak; companies to
which it is important certainly know it. Just think of the US - or any
European or Asian country for that matter - some years ago, when they
had not yet been totally covered. I guess their progress in coverage
was public information throughout. We think the same happens here, and
some governamental office will have it, but we thought it could be a
short-cut to count on your help. Please try a little more and report
to me.
Obrigado (not obrigato; also,
there gender flexion, ending with O for males and A for females), just
a playful remark. Wayworn
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Request for Question Clarification by
crabcakes-ga
on
21 May 2006 08:27 PDT
Hi there Wayworn,
Of course I am still working on this question! (Regarding
"obrigado", I'm a terrible typist, not a poor speller! LOL)
I will return!
Regards, Crabcakes
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Request for Question Clarification by
crabcakes-ga
on
21 May 2006 17:22 PDT
I have found some additional information, but not the critical piece!
2006 ?Brazil is expected to have 3.3 million broadband subscribers
this year, up from an estimated 2.0 million last year, according to
PwC. By 2009, the country should have 8.4 million broadband
subscribers, PwC forecasts.?
http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/reports/reports/040306/voip.htm
May 2006 ?Although there is currently no official data, at least 3,200
public access points are now in existence. President Lula da Silva?s
government has defined telecentres as an ?intensive information
technology project to fight poverty that intends to guarantee the
citizens? digital privacy and security, their insertion in the
information society and the strengthening of local development.??
http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=4983890
May, 2006 ?Top Networking Facts of Brazil
Mobile penetration is moderate:
41.1%, second to Chile in South America
Teledensity is low: 21% (higher than SA average of 17%); only 38.81 million
main lines in use; growth is stagnant VoIP is legal in Brazil: Accounts for
36% of international calls; regulation expected in early 2006
Broadband is growing quickly: 2.93 million broadband users (13% of all
internet users)
Wi-Fi is widespread: Nearly 800 hot spots (primarily in major metropolitan
areas)
Top IT schools are in top IT cities:
Campiras, São Paulo and São José
dos Campos
One telecom regulator: Agência
Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel)
CIOs exist across industries: CIOs
are standard; IT managers are primarily in financial, utilities,
communication and health industries
ADSL is most popular: Accounts for 84% of the country's broadband market?
?Similarly, broadband growth is explosive; there are 3 million
broadband subscribers in 2005 ? more than a three-fold increase from
the 700,000
broadband subscribers in 1998. The Internet had 22 million users in
Brazil in 2005 according to Computer Industry Almanac, or
approximately 12.3 percent of the population, up from 5 million in
2000. As is evidenced by the broadband
growth rate, these end users are rapidly migrating from dialup to
broadband. Even though Brazil is sophisticated when it comes to
different types of communications infrastructure ? cable companies are
common, and so are satellite-based broadcasters ? ADSL (asymmetric
digital subscriber line) dominates when it comes to types of
broadband.This is consistent with other growing markets. A recent
report by Paul Budde Communications found 84 percent of all Brazilian
broadband users were using ADSL?
Number of Internet Users 22,320,000 (March 2005); 12.3% of the population
Internet Hosts Total 3,163,349 (2003)
PCs per 100 inhabitants 11.0
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:F4yJLZuLp1YJ:www.att.com/globalnetworking/docs/networking_in_brazil_att.pdf+number+of+broadband+users+%2B+Brazil&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=10
In .PDF form
http://www.att.com/globalnetworking/docs/networking_in_brazil_att.pdf
2006 ?Like most rapidly developing nations, Brazil has latched on to
the Internet, with many hotels and businesses now online. Public
access is not so widely available, although all cities and many towns
do now have cybercafés (listed in the "Listings" sections throughout
the guide, and many hotels offer Internet access too. There's a
surprising paucity of access in the Amazon region and parts of the
Northeast, although both Manaus and Belém are well served by Internet
facilities, as is Salvador. The general hourly rate for Internet
access in Brazil is between $2 and $4.?
http://www.justbrazil.org/brazil/brazil-media.asp
Well, we at least know that the remote hill town of Piraí, population
23,600 has broadband internet!
http://www.w2i.org/pages/case_studies/pirai_brazil.html
http://www.w2idigitalcitiesconvention.com/awards/2005/community_momentum.html
?According to PNAD 2004 (National Household Sample Survey) from IBGE
(Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics) 12,2 per cent
Brazilian domiciles have a computer with Internet access. This
percentage corresponds to 6,3 million domiciles, or 21,6 million
people.?
?Brazil?s broadband penetration in 2004 was 1,2% (nearly 3 million
users in September 2005), a low figure as compared to United States
(12,8%) and Canada (17,7%).
United Nations Information Economy Report 2005 points that, between 2003 and 2004
there has been a growth of 88,2% in the number of broadband users in
Brazil, a higher level when compared to United States, Germany and
China.
In 2004, Brazil ended with 2.256 million broadband users, against
1.199 million in 2003, says the report, which also points that the use
of fast connections has become common in companies of developing
countries. Nevertheless, although subscriber growth rates are high in
Latin America, years will pass before they can achieve the same levels
as Asia, Europe or North America.?
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:WCzyhc_-aOwJ:www.ptc06.org/program/public/proceedings/Joao%2520Peixoto_paper_w142%2520(formatted).pdf+number+of+broadband+users+%2B+Brazil&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=15
Dec. 2005 ?In Brazil's highly populated areas, people have access to
computers and the Internet. Brazil had 3.6 million broadband
connections, with a penetration of 1.9 % of the population, according
to the first broadband barometer issued in December 2005. But, despite
its leadership in many areas, Brazil has one of the lowest rates of
broadband penetration not only in Latin America but worldwide, and the
Brazilian government is committed to increasing it.?
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2006/ts_041406.html
?O mercado de acesso a Internet via banda larga apresentou um
crescimento de 75,7% em relação ao ano de 2004. Em relação às
tecnologias, há predominância do acesso via ADSL com 82% do market
share ? disse Cynthia Hirota, analista de Telecom, IDC Brasil.?
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=BR1515
You may be able to locate info on this site. I visited many pages,
but there are instances when the similarities and differences between
Spanish and Portuguese baffle me!
http://www.ibge.gov.br/
?There will be 768,000 accumulated BWA/WIMAX subscribers in Brazil by
2010, of which two thirds will be WiMAX, according to the latest
report from leading research firm Maravedis, titled ?BWA/WiMAX
Brazilian Market Analysis.? This new report, the first of a series
that will include reports on Russia, India and other countries,
provides an in-depth review of the broadband wireless and WiMAX
markets and regulatory activity taking place in Brazil.
?Approximately 70% of those accumulated WiMAX subscribers will be
residential mobile users, while fixed WiMAX will continue to be driven
by large and SME customers,? explained Eduardo Prado and Adlane
Fellah, co-authors of the report.
The Brazilian players are anxiously awaiting the new 3.5 GHz auction
to start sometime in July 2006, before federal elections due in
October 2006. Bidders will want either to expand their current
coverage areas or to enter the WiMAX arena. Moreover, positive
regulatory changes in the 2.5 GHz band will open the WiMAX market
starting 2007.?
http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R450-10.html
2004 ``Broadband is the new object of desire among Internet users,''
says Alexandre Freitas, director of marketing at UOL, a Brazilian
portal with 1.4 million paid subscribers and a vast store of content,
information, entertainment and services online. ``Frankly, it's a
growing market, one that includes not only the migration of dial-up
users but also new users who bought access to a broadband service with
their new computers and software.'' Freitas believes broadband in
Brazil will grow at more than 60% a year for the next two years.?
http://www.latintrade.com/dynamic/index.php?pg=site_en/pastissues/Oct05/features8.html
From the May 29, 2006 Internation Edition of Newsweek ?Only a
fraction of Brazilians had Internet access of any kind. Even now, just
6 percent of the country's 11 million Web users enjoy broadband
connections?and barely one in 20 of them has gone wireless. What's
more, 90 percent of this vanguard lives in big cities, like Rio de
Janeiro. But Bigfoot was never one to think small, and by early this
year he'd gone off tilting at transmission towers.?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5076471/site/newsweek/
?Internet access kiosks are being installed this year in selected post
offices of Rio de Janeiro, the greater metropolitan area of São Paulo
and the interior of São Paulo state (Elkin, February 2001). On
November 16, 2000, São Paulo Governor, Mário Covas, inaugurated the
first "infocenter" of a network that should include 60 locations in
Greater São Paulo and 60 more locations in the interior of the state
by the end of 2001. This project, called Acessa São Paulo, should
benefit 3.5 million "paulistas" having a budget of R$ 4,8 million and
partnerships with companies like Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and
Telefônica. Located in a neighborhood on the southern periphery of the
city, in the neighborhood Jardim São Luís, this first center is
already being utilized to train young people and adults in
informatics, use of the Internet and the generation of local
information. Goiânia and Porto Alegre were cited in the inauguration
as cities planned for similar systems and more will follow. Private
companies such as NetCash-PopBanco (an enterprise), Caixa Econômica
Federal (a government bank), Globo Cabo (a cable internet provider),
Telefônica Empresas (the business division of Telefónica of Spain),
recently announced similar efforts to build points of access at
neighborhood paderias (bakeries,) which Brazilians typically visit
every day.?
http://www.cidec.futuro.usp.br/artigos/artigo5.html
I?m afraid current statistics are more often than not proprietary, and
can be bought:
http://www.mindbranch.com/catalog/find.jsp?keywords=internet+%2B+brazil+%2B+rural&newsearch.x=0&newsearch.y=0
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=IDC_P8678
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=BR1514
http://www.marketresearch.com/browse.asp?categoryid=1448&sortby=d&g=1&page=5
http://www.emarketer.com/SiteSearch.aspx?pathID=42
Internet usage
There were 25,900,000 Internet users in Brazil in 2005, which
represents 14.1% of the population.
Source: eTForecasts
http://www.consumer-access.com/research_sample_panel_brazil.html
?Wi-Fi is considered the big emerging solution in terms of technology.
Just like any other revolution, curiosity, discussions and doubts
surround this new service. Creative companies that provide good
solutions for Wi-Fi may enjoy good opportunities in Brazil.
The penetration rate of cable broadband in Brazil is very low as
compared to other Latin American countries because the price of the
service is considered very high. According to Anatel, there are
nearly 11.6 million residential Cable TV subscribers; of this number,
2.3 million pay-TV users are connected through MMDS technology. The
number of Internet users via cable modem increased from 88,000, in
2001, to 131,000 in 2002. This amount represents 19 percent of the
total broadband users in Brazil.?
?Currently, dial-up connections using the public telephone network
represent the primary method of Internet access in the residential and
SoHo markets. The low penetration rates among these segments stem
primarily from the cost of the service and the unequal distribution of
income in country. Fierce competition among Internet Service
Providers has caused access costs to fall, but the market penetration
is still considered very low as compared to the size of the
population. Unequal income distribution limits the number of domestic
users, but on the other hand, the web reaches more than 80 percent of
the upper-middle and upper classes.
Nevertheless, there has been significant growth in Internet use by
lower income individuals, who now represent 17 percent of Brazilian
net surfers, up from just 5 percent three years ago. Besides the
decrease of Internet subscription costs and the availability of free
Internet providers, there are other reasons for the popularization of
the Internet among lower-income users: initiatives to make computers
available in schools and public places, and increased availability of
credit lines for the acquisition of the first family computer. ?
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr112825e.html
An interesting, enthusiastic aside:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=brazil
I will be going out of town for 4 days tomorrow and may not get to
work on this question, though I will try! Please be patient! I have
also sent out a few e-mails. Regards, Crabcakes
Search Terms
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