The Brazilian IT industry invested $60 billion in 2104, according to an IDC survey commissioned by the Brazilian software company association ABES.
Brazil is the seventh-largest IT market in the world and the biggest in Latin America. The country accounts for 46% of the region’s total investment of $128 billion. In the services and software and software segment alone, investment totaled $25.2 billion last year.
The Brazilian telco market had total revenue of $77.24 billion in 2014, an equivalent of 4.2% of the country’s GDP.
Altogether, telco operators invested $9.57 billion last year; if the acquisition of spectrum licenses is concluded, the total rises to $11.42 billion.
The country ended 2014 with 372 million accesses, of which 45 million were landlines, 280.7 mobile lines, 24 million Internet broadband and 19.6 million were pay-TV subscribers.
Brazil is the No. 4 cellphone market in the world – China is No. 1, followed by the United States and India.
In other Brazilian telecom news:
• Brazilian regional operator Sercomtel plans to switch off its 2G network by the end of 2016.
The regional company plans to deactivate its GSM, GPRS and Edge networks. The move comes after regulator Anatel imposed new minimum network quality standards.
Once deactivated, Sercomtel would operate a single 3G network.
• A survey conducted by Regus showed that WhatsApp is used as a work tool by 95% of people who work from home in field services. Skype is the second most used at 81%, followed by Facebook Messenger at 68%.
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