 Cutting-edge technology and national integration.
The level of resources applied in Embratel indicates the commitment of Telmex: to reinvest in Brazil the profit earned by the company. In 2007, the group applied in the capital increase of Embratel the R$ 142 million of dividends earned in the previous year. With no remittance abroad, this all-Brazilian management policy results in a corporate impulse towards expansion leading to an increase of jobs and of the tax revenue as well. In 2006 Embratel earned R$ 1.5 billion with taxes and contributions. The amount transferred to the Government, to the 27 states and to thousands of municipalities - equivalent to the total amount of investments - benefited the entire population.
In order to promote the people integration in Brazil , Embratel has been meeting, on a true and timely basis, the commitment of providing access to wireline calling regardless of the location and the social-economical condition of its users. Embratel was first in the industry to have its universalization goals certified by Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), in January of 2007. By late June it had installed 1,609 public phones as established in the concession agreement and in the General Plan of Universalization Goals (PGMU) on calling services.
In early 2007 Embratel inaugurated a revolutionary fiber optics communication systems that crosses the Amazon forest and interconnects Manaus and Porto Velho to the domestic and international fiber optics cable. The project used the BR-319 road to bring more speed and security to communications in the Amazon region, and to fulfill the growing demand for telecommunications in that area, especially in the city of Manaus. The system increased by almost ten times the installed capacity, that came to 2 x 622 Mbps.
The construction of the Manaus - Porto Velho optical interconnection was a unique project worldwide, combining Economic Development and Environment Preservation along the 924 km of BR-319, crossing the "heart" of the largest and richest tropical forest in the world.
On November 14, 2007 Embratel inaugurated its third generation of satellites with the launch of Star One C 1. In 2008 the second satellite of the new generation, Star One C2 will be launched.
Star One C1 has nearly twice as much power as Brasilsat B2, which it has replaced. It extends its coverage area beyond Brazil, reaching South and Central America, and Florida (US). It has 28 transponders (signal transmitters and receivers) in C Band, 16 in Ku Band and one in X Band. C Band provides voice, TV, radio and data signals, including the Internet. Ku Band offers video transmission services directly to users, plus Internet and telephone services to remote areas. X Band is exclusive for military use. Star One C2 will be launched in February of 2008 and will stand at 70º W of Brasilsat B1 position.
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