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[QUOTE=Poucolouco]If your party is in Rio, then you are dialing correctly. The Rio de Janeiro local area code is 21. If you activated your Claro phone in Rio then it also would have a 21 prefix and you could dial within that area with only the 8-digit number. I suggest you just try your call later.[/QUOTE]Thanks for the reply but you may have misunderstood me. I am calling from my Landline in US. Does it matter what other party's cell phone brand is? Do I still put 21 even if it is Claro, Oi or another Brand?

Also, I've tried it with 21 at different times but it just doesn't connect.

SM1

[QUOTE=Sexmachine1]Thanks for the reply but you may have misunderstood me. I am calling from my Landline in US. Does it matter what other party's cell phone brand is? Do I still put 21 even if it is Claro, Oi or another Brand?

Also, I've tried it with 21 at different times but it just doesn't connect.

SM1[/QUOTE]
No, I did not misunderstand you. The calling protocols are international for all telephone connections. They are not dependent on landline nor cellular, nor carrier. Perhaps your party has a phone from a city other than Rio. Perhaps your party no longer has an operating telephone. Here is a link to calling codes in brasil.

[url]http://www.countrycallingcodes.com/country.php?country=Brazil[/url]

I have, at times, had problems calling in and out of Brasil, even with all the 'accepted' international protocols. Sometimes the standard intro and exit codes just don't work, and I've had officials suggest alternatives (no, can't remember what they are, sorry!)

But the most common scenario I think is a blip. If you can't get thru, try again in a few hours or the next day.

Some cell phones in Brasil do seem to have their own peculiarities. And of course, many are simply unable to accept international calls, end of story.

Calling to Brazil is a lottery.

Even though you call the correct number you might get to a machine that tells you that the number doesn't exist, a strange tone or somebody answers that don't belong to that number.

Mobile phones are not that bad, except for the "fora da area ou desligado".

When calling to fix phones it might be problematic. Sometimes they added a number "3" in front of all numbers. OK. Call again... An empregada/kid/sobrinha/vizinha answers and tell you to wait one minute while she gets senhora YYY. "YYY, fone, vem rapido!" and tells you that she´s coming within one minute. Twenty minutes later the same procedure is going on. I go nuts when this happens...

Solution: Call back! Finally, you might get lucky.

Still, I look on the bright side. When I started to travel to Brazil the communication was letters or sometimes fax to the local phone/post office. The communication took weeks.

Now we have internet, email, orkut, msn etc. In a minute I'm watching one of the future "Miss Sperto" on the webcamera doing the "te amo, saudades"-routine.

[QUOTE=Sperto]When calling to fix phones it might be problematic. Sometimes they added a number "3" in front of all numbers. OK. Call again... An empregada/kid/sobrinha/vizinha answers and tell you to wait one minute while she gets senhora YYY. "YYY, fone, vem rapido!" and tells you that she´s coming within one minute. Twenty minutes later the same procedure is going on. I get nuts when this happens...[/QUOTE]
Hmmm.....the shock of recognition. All this time I thought this happened only to me!

[QUOTE=Sperto]An empregada/kid/sobrinha/vizinha answers and tell you to wait one minute while she gets senhora YYY. "YYY, fone, vem rapido!" and tells you that she´s coming within one minute. Twenty minutes later the same procedure is going on. I get nuts when this happens...
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Seriously, what is up with that! It had happened to me a few times and I thought I had misdialed until I checked the phone logs.

So I guess I have to keep trying since i'm dialing with right digits. Can't wait to talk to this Garota. she is in my dreams every night. God, I gotta get back to Rio.

[QUOTE=Sexmachine1]Thanks for the reply but you may have misunderstood me. I am calling from my Landline in US. Does it matter what other party's cell phone brand is? Do I still put 21 even if it is Claro, Oi or another Brand?

Also, I've tried it with 21 at different times but it just doesn't connect.

SM1[/QUOTE]

From what I know the company you are using has to have a contract with the other party's cell phone company so they can pay each other for their services.

Check with your company then for both phone calls and sms exchanging (in case you are using a cell phone).

Eg I could call but not send sms's. They only had contract for phone calls only.

Hope it helps

[QUOTE=Sexmachine1]So I guess I have to keep trying since i'm dialing with right digits. Can't wait to talk to this Garota. she is in my dreams every night. God, I gotta get back to Rio.[/QUOTE]You didn't say what happens when you call. Does the phone ring at the other end. Do you receive a recorded message or is the attempt to call disconnected?

So, finally, I called again and it connected. I used 21 and it worked. But the sound quality was really bad. We had hard time understanding each other with my limited Porto and her limited English. Anyways, I will try it some other time.

Finally, I can sleep easy tonite.

SM1

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[QUOTE=Sperto] ... An empregada/kid/sobrinha/vizinha answers and tell you to wait one minute while she gets senhora YYY. "YYY, fone, vem rapido!" and tells you that she´s coming within one minute. Twenty minutes later the same procedure is going on. I go nuts when this happens...
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This happens to me only when I use services like Truphone. Never with Skype or with direct calls.
I believe it is some sort of scam. These people must gain money the more you stay online waiting.
Regards.B.B.

[QUOTE=Bimbo Boy]This happens to me only when I use services like Truphone. Never with Skype or with direct calls.
I believe it is some sort of scam. These people must gain money the more you stay online waiting.
Regards.B.B.[/QUOTE]
It happened to me a lot of times when I called to Brazil from back home, on the usual line, no Skype etc. I have no idea if they gain money from me waiting on the line.

It could be a cultural phenomena. The person answering the phone gets so excited by an international call that she starts yelling for senhora XXX even though she´s two blocks away at the padaria. Or it could be because of laziness. The person answering the phone does some halfhearted yelling from the sofa where her lazy ass is rooted, watching a novela.

I don't know what's most annoying, waiting or that the person answering gets back to the phone every third minute telling you that now senhora XXX is coming just wait for one more minute.

[QUOTE=Prosal]As anywhere else.

Simply with good looks, language skills, cultural awareness, humor, initiative, imagination, self-confidence, charm, discernment, sensitivity, poise, time and of course cash.

Anyhow don't dream. The days when sex-hungry gringos on a one week holidays were an option for normal brasileiras are long, long, long gone. And don't think that less-travelled areas may offer you better chances with non-pros than cosmopolitan big cities. Even in provinces foreigners have a reputation as culturally inept sex tourists and girls have figured out since long that we only want to fuck them, so gringos are now more a curiousity to avoid than anything else.

BTW Cuiaba is a quite boring and uninspiring place. Better go to Goiania IMO.[/QUOTE]Has this character actually BEEN to Goiania? It's impossible to tell because there isn't anything being said here. A lot of other posters say they're going, then. Nothing.

OK, for anyone interested. I've been about half-a-dozen times in the last couple of years, including extended stays and excursions to the interior. North and west as far as Toncatins. Goiania: actually two cities in one. In the northern section. Zona airport (small, so reserve your car in advance) and rodovaria (actually a big, nice one, but it had ought to be as that's the major transit means for the estado) there is a whole lot of nothing. And it's big. Shabby hotels, fast food and grub meals only. Low-level prive, bar-sitters (kin of the SW) near the bus station/cheapest hotel area. A pain royal to navigater and drive through this mess. Southern sector the zona of the mais alto. High-rise blocks of flats, shopping malls (1st word style), green-belt parks, liveable with 4-star hostelry, restaurants, clubs, et. Al. Best strip club in town is on the main SP-Brasilia highway. Also out on the highway is the main attraction not to be missed. A gigantic complex Las Vegas-esque of sex motels, boites, woman of all types and descriptions, bars: it's a themepark of sex. (And see if it doesn't conjure to your mind Las Vegas.) A true oasis. The place is always open but comes alive at night on weekends. Before this times out on me here, just ought to say: the interior is conservative. But, you will be a novelty which plays favorably. So long as you're young enough and can dress appropriately, I. E. Sort of like them. Bottom line: most visitors will be content with seeing the City once, in my opinion, if that tells you anything.

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[QUOTE=Prosal]As anywhere else.

Simply with good looks, language skills, cultural awareness, humor, initiative, imagination, self-confidence, charm, discernment, sensitivity, poise, time and of course cash.

Anyhow don't dream. The days when sex-hungry gringos on a one week holidays were an option for normal brasileiras are long, long, long gone. And don't think that less-travelled areas may offer you better chances with non-pros than cosmopolitan big cities. Even in provinces foreigners have a reputation as culturally inept sex tourists and girls have figured out since long that we only want to fuck them, so gringos are now more a curiousity to avoid than anything else.

BTW Cuiaba is a quite boring and uninspiring place. Better go to Goiania IMO.[/QUOTE]Goias interior. As we know, Goias supplies a disproportionate number of the sex providers working in Europe, particularly in Spain. Girls from the smaller cities. And miniscule rural towns as well. Have done a turn or two in spanish boites and brothrels after having been recruited by the trafficking gangs. What this means for the (sex) tourist in Goias is that while a native English speaker can be a rare site, once they learn you are a foreigner, you'll be initially assumed to be Espanhol. A curious thing until you realize that the working girls return home with Spaniard spouses. Most towns have at least a couple of these guys living out their golden years. Until I met a few, had thought it was strange to see ATM machines in banks in the middle of nowhere offering two language options: Portuguese and Castillian. Apparently, these guys are great for the local economy. There surely isn't a whole lot much of else going on. Of course, if you're native to the rural south or west of the USA, you might find something kindred in the ambience and overall tenor of life in interior Goiais.