Edison Yoshiharu Kinoshita

Part of AT & T, Inc., AT & T do BRASIL SA is a Brazilian telecommunications company that provides IP-based network systems. on December 09, 1999 for $300 million. AT&T do BRASIL SA was acquired by AT&T Corp. /Old/ from Promon Tecnologia Ltda.

GVT is a leading facilities-based telecommunications and Internet solutions provider company in Brazil. GVT offers a diversified portfolio of innovative products and advanced solutions for the conventional telephony, corporate data, broadband/Internet service provider ('ISP') and Voice-over-IP ('VoIP') markets. The Company offers its services and solutions directly to the customer using its own brands: GVT, POP and VONO. GVT believes it has some of the most recognized brands in the areas where the Company operates. GVT operates one of Brazil's most modern telecommunications networks; based on a single, integrated infrastructure that supports multiple protocols, with voice, data and IP on a single network. The combination of its state-of-the-art network with extensive last mile coverage allows the Company to offer customized products with bundled telecommunications and Internet-related solutions that meet its customers' specific requirements, with competitive cost and fast time-to-market, while providing a higher level of customer service than offered by its competitors. The Company focuses on high-margin and high-usage customers in the residential, small office/home office ('SOHO'), small to medium enterprises ('SMEs') and middle/large corporate market segments. GVT's position in the Brazilian market as the most important alternative to the Incumbents, the original operators for each telecommunications region, has enabled the Company to become one of the most successful and fastest growing fixed-line telecommunications service providers.