Telesp - Telecomunicações de São Paulo S.A. was the telephony operator of the
Telebrás
Telebras is a Brazilian telecommunications company which was the state-owned monopoly telephone system. It was broken up in July 1998 into twelve separate companies, nicknamed the 'Baby Bras' companies, that were auctioned to private bidders. The ...
system in the
Brazilian state of São Paulo, successor to the ''Companhia Telefônica Brasileira (CTB)'', later incorporating the ''Companhia de Telecomunicações do Estado de São Paulo (COTESP)'' and other smaller companies. It remained active from May 1973 until the privatization process in July 1998, when it was acquired by the Spanish company
Telefónica, forming
Telefônica Brasil
Telefônica Brasil, trading as Vivo, 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 ...
, which in 2012 adopted the
Vivo brand for its fixed-line operations.
References
External links
The company's home page
Telecommunications companies of Brazil
Telefónica
Defunct companies of Brazil
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