Thread: Using Cell Phones in Brazil
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10-17-12 17:12 #195
Posts: 2345A couple of basic things which might help.
If you go out of Rio. Even just a little way upstate. Your prepaid SIM will run down fast than ice-cream on a hot day.
Rio Sul Shopping is user-friendly (one or two people there can speak some English) but allow plenty of time.
TIM is maybe the easiest (in my experience and maybe the most mentioned on this board, but I might be wrong).
You can buy a SIM with no questions asked for a four or five reis in Uruguiana (Saare) market. But you will probably need to get a registered Brasilian to unlock it.
If you get stuck, for instance, topping up your card with the endless Porto recorded messages, your local newstand (where you bought the re-charge) is your friend.
The best place for your mobile phone is down the front of your jeans. (Or your hotel safe.)
Skype is often cheaper. Even to landlines and mobile phones.
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10-17-12 02:28 #194
Posts: 18Originally Posted by Poucolouco [View Original Post]
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10-15-12 19:35 #193
Posts: 688Originally Posted by TheAlvarez1001 [View Original Post]
http://www.oi.com.br/
http://www.vivo.com.br/
http://www.claro.com.br/
http://www.tim.com.br/
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10-15-12 15:53 #192
Posts: 99Getting TIM prepaid in Rio Sul Shopping
Sometimes the prepaid cards in the TIM store on the second floor are sold out, so you will have to go to the Lojas Americanas store in the fourth floor (the floor where there is a Starbucks) and buy a sim card there.
If you want a micro SIM make sure you get the right one. Then there is a small TIM store on the same floor, just around the corner. You can get it activated there. Of course, take your passport with you.
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10-15-12 04:39 #191
Posts: 36Originally Posted by TheAlvarez1001 [View Original Post]
I tired a Vivo once and the required CPF as well and did not get it because I did not have access to a CPF number at the time.
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10-15-12 01:12 #190
Posts: 18Other
Thanks for informations. What about "OI" and "VIVO" and "CLARO"? For citys like RJ+SP and maybe Foz do Iguacu.
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10-14-12 22:26 #189
Posts: 36Originally Posted by Poucolouco [View Original Post]
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10-14-12 17:34 #188
Posts: 688Iguacu
Originally Posted by Baggio67 [View Original Post]
http://www.tim.com.br/portal/site/Po...stado=26&#mapa
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10-14-12 17:18 #187
Posts: 36Originally Posted by TheAlvarez1001 [View Original Post]
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10-14-12 02:45 #186
Posts: 18Which carrier?
Hello peoples.
Which carriers you can recommend right now for citys like Rio, SP or Iguacu including internet on smartphones?
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08-27-12 20:03 #185
Posts: 18Originally Posted by GreenAndYellow [View Original Post]
Based on which knowledge you recommend the providers?
And means the suspension I can`t buy right now a new SIM-Card in these Brazilian states?
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08-01-12 16:51 #184
Posts: 33North vs South
Originally Posted by Java Man [View Original Post]
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07-20-12 05:26 #183
Posts: 1428Brazil penalizes mobile carriers for poor service
"BRASILIA, July 18 (Reuters). Brazil's telecom regulator on Wednesday ordered three leading carriers to stop selling new mobile plans in certain states, an unusually strong punishment in response to rising consumer complaints about dropped calls and spotty coverage.
Regulator Anatel said that, in each of Brazil's 26 states plus the federal district of Brasilia, the company with the poorest service would be unable to sell new plans. The suspension will be effective on Monday and remain in place until the carriers present an investment plan to improve service quality, the agency said.
The suspension is one of the toughest pro-consumer measures taken by the government of President Dilma Rousseff and comes as investors are increasingly concerned about the government's willingness to intervene in the struggling economy.
"A growing client base needs to be accompanied by more investments," Anatel head João Batista de Resende told reporters, adding that the regulator had tracked growing customer service complaints for over a year.
TIM Participações, the Brazilian unit of Telecom Italia, will be prohibited from selling new plans in 19 states. Grupo Oi will be barred from selling in five states and sales by Claro, a unit of Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim's America Movil, are banned in three states.
Telefonica Brasil, a unit of Spain's Telefonica, will not have its sales suspended, but must present plans within 30 days to improve service or face sanctions.
Providers violating the sales bans will be fined 200, 000 reais ($99, 000) per day."
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/0...8IICEF20120718
Per Businessweek: "The ban on Claro included Sao Paulo, the nation's most populous state, and Tim was blocked in the second- and third-biggest states, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro."
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...aro-in-20-days
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03-11-12 21:36 #182
Posts: 2345If you are able to check the quality of the wifi before booking in to a hotel it is usually worth doing so. For instance, when moving, ask if they have wifi and ask to see a room. Test the password while in the room. Many hotels have wifi. But in some, although it exists, it can be next to useless.
Upmarket coffee shops (like the bookshop / coffee shop) on the corner of I think Rio Branco and Vargas, have great wifi. As with many places, you only need to buy a coffee there once to get the password, then you can connect up while looking at the books or sometimes even standing outside.
IPhone maps seems to store quite a lot of recently used stuff in its cache. So if you look up the roads of an area they may still be there when you have no connection. Or take a screen snapshot. I also keep an offline dictionary with full conjugations.
The thing wifi won't let you do of course is phone chicas. For that you need to be unlocked and get a chip from a store (or one for 5R at the market and play around with it).
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02-19-12 22:47 #181
Posts: 845Obrigado
Thanks, ET. Hope all is well with you.
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