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Land Line Terminals	34 Millions (2T2009)
Mobile Phones	162 Millions (2T2009)
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Brazil has both modern technologies in the center-south portion, counting with 3G HSDPA, VDSL2+, Digital Tv. In other hand, in the country (Mostly North and Norwest regions) lacks even basic analogic land line phones. This is a problem that the gorvernment is trying to solve by linking the liberation of new technologies (Such as WiMax or PLC) only tied with compromisses on extension of the service to less povoated regions.

[edit] Phone System

[edit] Land Line System

Statistics^[3]

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.^[4]

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]

[edit] Mobile System

Statistics^[2]

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)
Technology	2008 (Dec)	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%
GSM	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%

[edit] International Backbones

[edit] Submarine Cables

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

Americas II cable entered operations on September 2000, connecting Brazil (Fotaleza) to United States.
ATLANTIS-2, with around 12 thousand quilometers in extension, operating since 2000, it connect Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and Natal) to Europe, Africa and South America. This is the only cable that connect South America to 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 Interconect Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.

All these cables have a bandwidth Going from 20Gbps to 80Gbps, and some have s projected final capacity of more than 1Tbps.

[edit] Satellite Connections

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

Satellite Operator	Satellite	Bands	Orbital Positions	Operational
Hispamar	AMAZONAS-1	C e Ku	61,0º W	Yes
Hispamar	AMAZONAS-2	C e Ku	61,0º W	Yes
Loral Skynet	ESTRELA DO SUL	Ku	63,0º W	Yes
Loral Skynet	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

[edit] 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 internetional business and persons participate on it. But worth metion that Brazil has the 4th biggest media conglomerate in the world, the Globo Network.

[edit] Internet

Main article: Internet in Brazil

Internet has become quite popular in Brazil, with stead growing numbers in adhesion and disponibility, with numbers that positions Brazil at the 6th spot on number of users.^[7] Many technologies are actually in use to bring Broadband Internet to consumers, being the most used the ADSL and it's variants one, and 3G Technologies another.

[edit] References

[0] ttp://www.teleco.com.br/ntfix.asp

[cel-1] ttp://www.teleco.com.br/ncel.asp

[2] ttp://www.anatel.gov.br

[cia-3] ttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html

[4] ttp://www.teleco.com.br/tutoriais/tutorialcsub/pagina_2.asp

[satlist-5] ttp://www.teleco.com.br/sat_rel.asp

[6] ttp://www.viuisso.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/onu_internet_br.jpg

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