Review by alenonimo 
Posted: 276 days ago
member for 1.5 years, 3 visits, last login: 181 days ago
 Brazil
 $46 per month (18 month contract)
 about 7 days
 "It's pretty decent, for an brazilian ADSL"
 "Brazilian ADSLs are too slow and not that reliable"
 "To live at another country. :("
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I'm using Telefônica's Speedy service, with advertised downstream of 1 Mbps and upstream of 300 Kbps. It costs, alone, R$ 90,00 and you're obliged to have an provider, which costs another R$ 10,00 or 20,00.
In my tests, the average speed are 756 Kbps for downstream and 242 for upstream. Not bad.
The connection doesn't seems throttled in any way and there's no cap. You can download without any limit, unlike some other brazilians services.
The real problem is the price. R$ 110,00 are equivalent to U$ 46,00, and the minimum wage here is U$ 190,00. It's expensive, and will be for a looooong time. Bad politics and abusive taxes just make everything worse.
Followup comments:  NitroBiz5
join:2007-11-15
Kent, WA
| Brazil Funny that I saw your review. I'm planning on moving to Brazil in a few years and I've wondered how my connection would be when I move there. My mother in law has internet service in her apartment and it's intermediate at best. One of my wife's cousin owns a company that provides internet and tv service but it's not available in Sao Paulo where we'll be moving too. | |
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furionbr
join:2007-07-16
brazil
 ·GVT
| telefonica if your going to São Paulo, make sure you sign up with Telefónica or NET Virtua, they´re your best chance at broadband. Still, broadband in Sao Paulo is not really a problem, since its the biggest city in Brazil...
and about this review, you should call Telefonica, they have plenty of other plans, I have a friend that is now using the 8 Mbps plan and paying less than you do for 1...
btw, this review is about Telefónica Speedy, so does no belong to Brazil Telecom, as you stated in your review. | |
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