The Brazilian mobile phone infraestructure is complex. There isn’t a single company operating on the whole of the territory. Each state has a number of companies active on that state. Some companies can be found in several states, others can’t (Telemig, for instance, is a company active only in the state of Minas Gerais). To [...]
SpeakMax is a company that sells phonecards, similar to the ones common in so many other countries, cards used to make phone calls abroad – I am not connnected in any way to the company. Their rates, when the calls are made from land-based lines, are much cheaper than the ones charged by the telephone [...]
The process of privatization of the telephone services in Brazil gave way to a complex system of companies and codes. As a result, the simple act of making a phone call has become a complex and bewildering operation. Local calls. Just dial the number. Long-distance calls. Dial 0, then the two-digit code that identifies the [...]
