From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – Brazil has 12.2 million residential Internet users, according to research centre Ibope/Net Ratings. The number refers to December 2005 and means growth of 12.4% when compared to December 2004. The average connection time, according to the study, is 17 hours and 59 minutes a month.
Brazil is the leader in terms of connection time among the eleven countries researched, ahead of the United States, Japan, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The connection time per user in December 2005 was five times higher than in the same month in 2004.
*Translated by Mark Ament
