Vivo (telecommunications) region Vivo owns the following brands: Vivo (telecommunications) Vivo (, Portuguese for "alive"), is a brand of Telefônica Brasil, the largest telecommunications company in Brazil. It is headquartered both in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The company was originally formed as part of Telebrás, the state-owned telecom monopoly at the time. In 1998, Telebrás was demerged and privatized. Telefónica bought Telesp, the São Paulo division, and rebranded it to Telefónica. On 15 April 2012, all Telefonica services were rebranded again to Vivo, using the same strategy of unifying all its services in a unique brand, like Movistar (Hispanic America
Communications in Uganda Uganda took over control of its postal system, although until 1961 stamps from the colonial postal system were being issued alongside Uganda's stamps. The Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation had a monopoly over Uganda's communications sector until the Uganda Communications Act was enacted in 1997. The act created the Uganda Communications Commission, the current regulator of communications in Uganda. As of June 2018, the telephone communications system was described by the CIA factbook as "developed through private partnerships", with "over of fiber optics", and 4G network available in most major cities and national parks, and 3G service available in second-tier