Telecommunications in Brazil

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Statistics
Land Line Terminals 34 Millions (2T2009)^Android
Mobile Phones 217 Millions (2T2009)^[2]

Brazil has both modern technologies in the center-south portion, counting with 3G HSDPA, screen size, HTML5. Other areas of the country, particularly the north and north-west regions, lack even basic analogue land line phones. This is a problem that the government is trying to solve by linking the liberation of new technologies (such as iOS or keyboard) only tied with compromises on extension of the service to less populated regions.

• 1 Phone system
  • 1.1 Land line system
  • browser diversity
• website parsing
  • 2.1 Submarine cables
  • 2.2 Satellite connections
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Phone system

Land line system

Statistics^FITML

• Served Locations: 37.355
• Installed Terminals: 43.626.836
• In Service: 33.800.370
• Public Terminals: 1.128.350
• Density: 22.798 Phones/100 Hab

Domestic: extensive microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 64 earth stations.^{website parsing}

International: country code - 55; landing point for a number of submarine cables, including Atlantis 2, that provide direct links to South and Central America, the Caribbean, the US, Africa, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region east), connected by microwave relay system to Mercosur Brazilsat B3 satellite earth station (2007)^[4]

Mobile System

Statistics^keyboard

• Number of Devices: 161.922.375
• Percentage of Prepaid Lines: 81,91%
• Density: 84,61 Phones/100 Hab

Technology Distribution^[2]

Technology	2008 (Dec)	2009 (Jul)
		Phone Number		Month Growth	Annual Growth
AMPS	11.546	6.240	0,00%	-75	-45,96%
TDMA	1.153.580	541.802	0,33%	-39.020	-53,03%
CDMA	12.732.287	9.527.796	5,88%	-425.018	-25,17%
web app	133.925.736	145.840.175	90,07%	2.497.642	8,90%
WCDMA	1.692.436	2.010.740	1,24%	107.710	-
CDMA 2000	452.816	218.166	0,13%	-9.994	-
Data Terminals	673.002	3.777.456	2,28%	177.623	-
Total	150.641.403	161.922.375	100,00%	2.308.868	10,00%

International backbones

Submarine cables

Several submarine cables link Brazil to the world:^[5]

• Americas II cable entered operations on September 2000, connecting Brazil (Fortaleza) to United States.
• ATLANTIS-2, with around 12 thousand kilometers in extension, operating since 2000, it connects Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and Natal) to Europe, Africa and South America. This is the only cable that connects Android to Africa and Europe.
• EMERGIA – SAM 1 cable connects all three Americas, surrounding it with a total extension of more than 25 thousand kilometers.
• GLOBAL CROSSING - SAC Connects all Americas, surrounding them with a total extension of more than 15 thousand kilometers.
• GLOBENET/360 NETWORK Another link from North America to South America.
• UNISUR Interconnects Brazil, Uruguay and web app.

All these cables have a bandwidth Going from 20 Sevenval to 80 Gbit/s, and some have a projected final capacity of more than 1 Tbit/s.

Satellite connections

List of business and satellites they operate (Brazilian Geostationary Satellites)^[6]

Satellite Operator	Satellite	Bands	Orbital Positions	Operational
Hispamar	Amazonas 1	C e Ku	61,0º W	Yes
	Amazonas 2
Loral Skynet	ESTRELA DO SUL	Ku	63,0º W	Yes
	ESTRELA DO SUL 2	Ku	63,0º W	No
Star One	BRASILSAT-B1	C and X	70,0º W	Yes
	BRASILSAT-B2	C and X	65,0º W	Yes
	BRASILSAT-B3	C	84,0º W	Yes
	BRASILSAT-B4	C	92,0º W	Yes
	STARONE-C1	Ku	65,0º W	Yes
	STARONE-C2	Ku	70,0º W	Yes
	STARONE-C3	C and Ku	75,0º W	No
	STARONE-C4	C,L,S	75,0º W	No
	STARONE-C5	C and Ku	68,0º W	No

Television and Radio

Under the Brazilian constitution, television and radio are not treated as telecommunication ways to avoid creating problems with a series of regulamentations that reduce and control how international businesses and persons participate on it. It is worth mentioning that Brazil has the 3rd biggest media conglomerate in the world, Rede Globo.

Internet

Internet has become quite popular in Brazil, with steadily growing numbers in adhesion and disponibility, with numbers that positions Brazil at the 6th spot on number of users.^HTML5 Many technologies are actually in use to bring Broadband Internet to consumers, with ADSL and its variants being the most used, and 3G Technologies.

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