Nearly three-fourths of Peru’s households had a mobile phone at the end of the first quarter, according to the “The Information and Communication Technologies in Households” report produced by The National Statistics Institute. The report found that mobile penetration increased 2.2% during the first three months of the year, reaching 74.3% at the end of March.
The report found that rural areas showed a 7 percentage points increase in mobile penetration during the quarter, while the urban Lima metropolitan area showed a slight reduction of .5 percentage points, dipping to 85.3%.
The report also revealed that more than a third (38.8%) of households in Lima had a computer, a 4.1 percentage points increase compared with the first quarter of 2010. Urban areas outside of Lima showed a .5 percentage points year-over-year increase in computer ownership to 27.6%, while rural areas showed a .8 percentage points increase to 3.3% of households. Nationwide, computer ownership stood at 23.8%, which was a .9 percentage points increase compared with the first quarter of 2010.
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