Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
03/09/2012
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Be a volunteer project measurement of broadband in the country you will receive, free, a device that would measure the quality of your connection and help improve the Internet in Brazil. Subscribe to: http://www.brasilbandalarga.com.br/. Will be selected among the registered users, more than 12,000 volunteers. Those who are not chosen can now be drawn in the next stage of the project. Yearly, there renewal 25% of volunteer base.
About 16 thousand users of fixed broadband have already registered to be volunteers of the project measuring the quality of service, according to a survey of Entity Aferidora Quality (AQE). The registration of volunteers began on August 29, as announced in a press conference that was attended by the Minister of Communications, Paulo Bernardo, and advisor Jarbas Valente, president of Anatel substitute.
The measurements allow the evaluation of providers of Multimedia Communication Service (SCM) with over 50 thousand hits: Hi, NET, Telefónica / Vivo, GVT, Algar (CTBC), Embratel, Sercomtel and Telecom Cable. Entries can be made through a form available on the portal www.brasilbandalarga.com.br, just for that, personal data and inform the contracted service. There is no deadline for the registration of volunteers. Officials of the analyzed companies can not participate in the project.
Those selected by AQE will have no cost to the installation of equipment and also not be paid. Volunteers receive a device dubbed whitebox, that measurement will be connected to the modem / router at home or business. Gauging the equipment will be installed on the computers daily and uninterrupted. The equipment does not collect any personal information nor interfere or monitor user navigation.
Besides collaborating to assess the quality of broadband, each volunteer will receive monthly report data on quality of service in your home or business.
Source: ANATEL
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