Telefônica Brasil, trading as Vivo, is a Brazilian telecommunications group, subsidiary of Spanish

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. It was originally formed as part of Telebrás, the state-owned telecom

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at the time. In 1998, Telebrás was demerged and

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bought Telesp, the São Paulo division, and rebranded it to Telefónica. The group has a participation of 15% in its revenues in the world and currently the company has more than 90 million customers. In 2010,

acquired the shares of Vivo that belonged to Portugal Telecom, and transferred control of the company to Telefônica-Vivo, its subsidiary in Brazil. In 2012 the company's services began to be marketed under the Vivo brand, its services, such as internet access,

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and

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, fixed and

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, among others, were integrated in this brand, launched in 2003 for the Telefónica-Portugal Telecom mobile telecommunications joint venture.

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Official website

Vivo Website

Vivo Internet
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Plano Vivo Empresas

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