Brazil adds 1.89 million new mobile users in July

Brazil adds 1.89 million new mobile users in July: "(Telecompaper) The number of mobile phone users in Brazil grewnto 187 million in July, according to the telecommunications regulator Anatel. In July, 1.89 million new users were added, an increase of 1.02 percent over June. In the first seven months of 2010 Brazil recorded 13.06 million new users, the second best result for this period in history, behind only the same period in 2008 (14.35 million). With the result in July, Brazil now has 96.83 mobile phone users for every 100 inhabitants. Of the total number of mobile phones, 153.78 million (82.22%) are prepaid and the remaining 33.24 million (17.78%) postpaid. Vivo remained the market leader with 56.57 million users, or 30.25 percent of the total. It is followed by Claro (25.42%), TIM (24.05%), Oi (19.93%) and others (0.35%). Brazil had more than 16 million 3G mobile accesses in July, of which 11.02 million from mobile phones and 5.4 million from modems, according to the Anatel figures. Over 604,500 new 3G terminals were enabled during the month and 109,209 modems for broadband access."