Brazil may have more cell phones than inhabitants by October
In May, Brazil reached the total of 183.7 million mobile accesses (according to Anatel's preliminary data) and 193 inhabitants IBGE).
Teleco's projections indicate that Brazil will have more cell phones than inhabitants by October/2010.
For this to happen, net adds for the next four months will have to be equal to 2009's. Until May, 2010 net adds overcame 2009's (in all the months).
All the Net adds, from January to May/2010, count 9.7 millions against 6.9 millions in the same period of 2009.
Brazil may join the group of 76 countries which, in 2009, had already overtaken this mark.
From these 76 countries, 21 are in Latin America and Caribbean region:
In Brazil, 24 local areas (more details) and 6 states (Brasília, São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul) have already overcame this mark.
Contrary to what was expected, the international experience has shown that having more cell phones than inhabitants doesn't mean, necessarily, having low growth. There are countries, like Estonia and the United Arab Emirates, where there are more than 2 mobile accesses per inhabitant. It happens mainly in countries in which there are stimuli to have more than one cell phone (or chip).
Cheap price for calls to cell phones of the same carrier encourage the ownership of more than 1 chip. A survey carried out by Teleco in May/2010, in the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre, indicates that 12% of the cell phone users in these cities had more than one chip (SIM Card).
Other factor are the data terminals used to access internet and application "Machine to Machine". Among the handsets used in Brazil in Apr/10, 5.2 million were data terminals, 3.3 million of them 3G.
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