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> Telecoms

Here you are Brazil's major national and local operators for your convenience.

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n Operator's Code

Embratel - code: 21
Intelig - code: 23
Brasil Telecom - code: 14
Telefonica - code: 15
Telemar - code: 31
Vésper - code: 85

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BRAZIL'S TELECOMS OPERATORS

n Some figures

Telephones installed in domiciles and mobile telephones

Between 1994 and 2001, there has ben a growth of 259,4% in the number of home telephones, meanwhile the number of mobile telephones mobiles had a growth of 3.487,5%.

	1994	1998	2001	2002	Band A	Band B	Card	Billed
HOME TELEPHONES	13,3	22,1	47,8
MOBILE TELEPHONES	0,8	7,4	28,7		67,1	32,9	32	68

Source: ANATEL



1. Major telecom operators at national and international level operating in Brazil

NAT. & INTERNATIONAL LEVEL	CODE OPERATOR	PORTAL
Embratel	21	http://www.embratel.com.br
Intelig	23	http://www.intelig.net.br

These companies do international, national anbd regional calls. Embratel (ex-State monopole for regional, national and international calls has been bought by MCI WorldCom of the US. Intelig is a consortium formed among others by France Telecom.



2. The regional Telecoms for home telephones doing also national and international calls nowadays

NIVEAU REGIONAL	CODE OPERATEUR	PORTAIL
Brasil Telecom (1)	14	http://www.brasiltelecom.com.br
Global Village Telecom (2)
Telefonica International (3)	15	http://www.telefonica.net.br
Telemar (4)	31	http://www.telemar.com.br
Vésper (5)	85	http://www.vesper.com.br

From these companies, Telemar is the only consortium formed by brazilian investors brésiliens and is actually the major telecom company in Brazil. The zone covered by Telemar goes from l'Amazonas until Rio de Janeiro, that is to say almost all of Brazil's coast, except southern States which are covered by Brasil Telecom and the São Paulo State which is covered by Telefónica. See also the details in the notes below.

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(1) Brasil Telecom covets the following States: Acre (AC), Distrito Federal (DF), Goiás (GO), Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), Mato Grosso (MT), Paraná (PR), Rondônia (RO), Rio Grande do Sul (RS) and Santa Catarina (SC).

(2) Operates in the same region as Brasil Telecom.

(3) Telefonica International covers the State of São Paulo.

(4) Telemar covers the following States: Alagoas (AL), Amapá (AP), Amazonas (AM), Bahia (BA), Ceará (CE), Espírito Santo (ES), Maranhão (MA), Pernambuco (PE), Pará (PA), Paraíba (PB), Piauí (PI), Rio Grande do Norte (RN), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Minas Gerais (MG), Sergipe (SE).

(5) Vésper covers: Acre (AC), Amazonas (AM), Amapá (AP), Roraima (RR), Maranhão (MA), Piauí (PI), Ceará (CE), Rio Grande do Norte (RN), Paraíba (PB), Pernambuco (PE), Alagoas (AL), Sergipe (SE), Bahia (BA), Minas Gerais (MG), Espírito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and São Paulo (SP).



n To make calls without problems: coming soon
n The cities codes: codes

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Source: Anatel (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações, the regulation of private telecom operators in Brazil. Anatel is the first organism of this kind in Latin America and one of the worlds major regulators