Broad Band in Brazil is five years behind the developed countries
Brazil finished Jun/06 with 4.6 million Broad Band accesses. Although the strong growth of 60% in the last 12 months, Brazil's Broad Band density is still 2.5 accesses/100 inhabitant, lesser than developed countries.
Note: density (Acesses/100 inhab) referring to Jun/06 and PIB per Capita in 2005. Sources, OCDE, Teleco and FMI.
The figure above presents the Broad Band density ( Access/100 inhabitant) in June/2006 of the OCDE countries (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) and some of the Latin America countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela). The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OCDE) is an Institution that joins all the developed European countries, USA, Japan and some other emergent countries as Mexico.
The coutries of Latin America have lesser PIB per capita and because of that lesser density (Broad Band accesses).
Accesses (Thousands) |
Accesses/100 inhab |
PIB per Capita (PPP) US$ |
|
| Argentina | 1,045 |
2.7 |
14,109 |
| Brazil | 4,630 |
2.5 |
8,561 |
| Chile | 785 |
4.8 |
11,937 |
| Colombia | 319 |
0.7 |
7,326 |
| Mexico | 2,951 |
2.8 |
10,186 |
| Venezuela | 439 |
1.6 |
6,186 |
Brazil and Mexico present a density of Broad Band accesses next to the average of the OCDE countries 5 years ago.
Broad Band Technologies
ADSL is the dominant technology of the 30 countries that join OCDE with 62.6% of the accesses. Between these countries, USA and Canada are the only ones that the cable modem surpass ADSL. In Japan 25.8% of the Broad Band accesses use other technologies. Japan is the country that has been investing in optical fiber access to the residences.
In Brazil, as in most of the Latin America countries, ADSL is the dominant technology with 77.6% of the accesses, followed by Cable with 20.5%.
Broad Band x Dialed
A trend in the Internet providers in Latin America is the changing of accounts from dialed access to Broad Band access, as exemplified in the following figure.
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