EMBRATEL
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Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações: Brazil's long-distance and data carrier, created in 1965 and folded into the Telebrás system; ran the country's first commercial internet trial in December 1994; privatized in 1998 to MCI WorldCom, sold to Telmex in 2004, incorporated into Claro in 2015.
The backbone company - long distance, international, and the first commercial internet on-ramp.
Also known as: Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações
Sources
- Embratel corporate lineage: 1998 privatization to MCI WorldCom, 2004 to Telmex, 2015 into Claro
- Serviço de Internet Comercial trial, December 1994 (Agência Brasil retrospective)