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The present Brazilian telecommunications system links Brazil to the world through communications satellites. Television, radio and telephone systems make possible to reach any part of the country or abroad right away. Television networks show foreign programmes or events at the same time they are being transmitted to the planet, as the Olympic Games for instance.The government plays a major role in providing telecommunications services. In 1992 television networks operating in Brazil were: Globo, Bandeirantes, Manchete, Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão - SBT and Sistema Nacional de Radiodifusão Educativa, with more than 200 television stations.
The Brazilian telephone system has been greatly expanded in the last decades as well. It serves more than 15 thousand localities and completes more than 1 billion domestic long-distance calls and 32 millions overseas calls a year. More than 13 million telephones were in use in the late 1980s.
Brazil also has over 2500 radiobroadcasting stations. In the late 1980s some 58.9 million radios and 36 million television sets were in service. The country has more than 280 daily newspapers, but most have a relatively small circulation. Major dailies include: O Dia and O Globo, in Rio de Janeiro; Folha de São Paulo and O Estado de São Paulo in São Paulo; and O Estado de Minas in Belo Horizonte.
As to telegraph services, the telegram-by-phone is the most widely used in the country. In 1992 more than 11 million domestic and 50 thousand international messages were transmitted.
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