Updates for Brazil - general

[ranerio]

Originally Posted by myonlymobile

Hi, thanks for your information. I just want to confirm that I am reading this right and it actually costs approximately R$2/minute or about US$0.90/min to call another operator's mobile during peak times? Those prices are incredibly high for a local phone call, and are even more than many international roaming prices.

MyOnlyMobile

Yes, it's high, they charge that much in prepaid plans.
OI operator price list

That's the reason most people in brazil who own a prepaid mobile use to mostly receive calls, with an eventual emergency outbound call and lots of SMS's. Calls to a mobile phone from a landline are charged about R$0.80 peak and R$0.55 off-peak per minute. I think if the operators would decrease their prices they would have much more traffic, but the usual way to go here is "charge high from just a few, not charge low from a lot'

Oi

Indeed it is expensive. I used to have a prepaid "caps" plan in Australia, $30 AUD would then be charged about 0.25 per minute and 0.20 per megabyte of data, with 30 day validity. Sooo different.
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