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Pelo Telefone (English: On the Telephone) is a song attributed to the Brazilian guitarist and composer Donga and considered to be the first samba song to be recorded in Brazil, according to records at the National Library of Brazil, [3] [4] although earlier recordings exist, such as "Samba - Em Casa da Bahiana" (1913) [5] and "Urubu Malandro" (1914).
The triple tulip in the city of São Paulo. The special shape of an animal, here a parrot, in Belém, Pará. Orelhão (Portuguese pronunciation: [oɾeˈʎɐ̃w] Big Ear; plural: Orelhões Portuguese pronunciation: [oɾeˈʎõjs]), officially Telefone de Uso Público (Public Use Telephone) [1] is the name given to the protector for public telephones designed by Chinese Brazilian architect and ...
On 8 August 2012, TIM Brasil became involved in a scandal, due to a report release by the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel). [7] The report pointed out that on TIM's prepaid voice plan (24.7% market share), called "Infinity" (in which the user pays roughly US$0.12 for each unlimited time call), calls were intentionally dropped by the company which forced customers to make ...
Telefônica Brasil, trading as Vivo, [3] is a Brazilian telecommunications group, subsidiary of Spanish Telefónica. It was originally formed as part of Telebrás, the state-owned telecom monopoly at the time. In 1998, Telebrás was demerged and privatized. Telefónica bought Telesp, the São Paulo division, and rebranded it to Telefónica. The ...
0500: premium-rate telephone numbers for charity donations, with a maximum of R$ 30.00 per donation (the telephone number is assigned to a donation value) + R$ 0.50 for call costs. 0800: toll-free telephone numbers. 0801: Telecard – Call service where the charge for a call from a payphone was charged to the account of a landline subscriber ...
In Portuguese, brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from brasa ('ember') and the suffix -il (from -iculum or -ilium). [32] It has alternatively been suggested that this is a folk etymology for a word for the plant related to an Arabic or Asian word for a red plant. [33]
It had applications, or at least a way to deliver more features by plugging a PCMCIA 1.8 MB memory card into the phone. [47] Coinciding with the introduction of 2G systems was a trend away from the larger "brick" phones toward tiny 100–200 grams (3.5–7.1 oz) hand-held devices.
Brasil Telecom S.A. (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [bɾaˈziw teleˈkõw]; BrT) was a major Brazilian telecommunications company headquartered in the Brazilian capital of Brasília. The company was one of three landlines and eight mobile telephone companies – and only long-distance service provider – that emerged in Brazil following ...