Algar Telecom

Algar Telecom, formerly known as CTBC, is a Brazilian telecomunications company. The company offers advanced services on landline and mobile phone (GSM and 3G), broadband, and cable TV (DTH). Currently it is present in parts of Goiás, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo for consumers, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Distrito Federal for business companies.

History and services

CTBC was founded in February 15, 1954, by Alexandrino Garcia, which acquired the Companhia Telefônica Teixeirinha. It is one of the companies from the Algar Group. Algar Telecom is headquartered in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais.

The mobile phone service uses technologies like AMPS, TDMA and GSM (including services like GPRS, EDGE and 3G). The broadband service offers the following speeds: ADSL (200 kbit/s, 500 kbit/s, 1 Mbit/s, 2 Mbit/s, 4 Mbit/s, 10 Mbit/s, 15 Mbit/s and 20 Mbit/s), Wi-Fi (up to 11 Mbit/s) and Fiber-optic (1 Gbit/s, only available for Uberlândia and within a distance of 1 km from the company's headquarters).

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Algar

Algar can mean:

Places

Algar, Cádiz, a city in Andalusia, Spain

Algar, India, a settlement in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, India

Algar de Mesa, a municipality in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Algar de Palancia, a municipality in the comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the Valencian Community, Spain

Algar do Carvão, an ancient lava tube or volcanic vent in the center of the island of Terceira in the Azores

Bnied Al-Gar, a suburb of Kuwait City

People

Ben Algar, an English footballer, who currently plays for F.C. New York

Hamid Algar, a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian Studies at the University of California

James Algar, an American film director, screenwriter, and producer

Luis Herrero-Tejedor Algar, a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament

Michael Algar, aka Olga, an English guitarist and singer and songwriter

Algar Howard, a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London

Algars Kirkis, a Soviet luger who competed during the late 1970s

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