INTERNET PORTALS: Terra Internet Portal

I have been using Terra for several years.  I use them because the phone companies offering internet access require me to sign up at one of these Portals – there are three in Brazil, I think.   I pay R$22.61 per month.
Last week they sent me a notice, by post, informing me that my credit [...]

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LIVING IN BRAZIL: Phone Support Services (or lack thereof)

The major phone company for our area, Brasil Telecom, was bought out by Oí – now known as Oí Brasil Telecom.  Today’s paper had an article about BT/Oí’s totally unacceptable customer service.
Since January Procon (consumer protection agency) has received 7,500 complaints again Oí Brasil Telecom; 20% of all consumer complaints.
Procon sent an official notice to [...]

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CLB-Cost of Living Brazil: Broadband

 
This is a translation of an article from FolhaOnline, the Internet version of the newspaper, Folha de São Paulo. 
Broadband in Brazil is Expensive and Not Always Fast
GAVROCHE FUKUMA
colaboração para a Folha de S.Paulo
Brazil is among the ten countries with the highest number of broadband users in the world.  In the last quarter of 2008, it placed [...]

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