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| Formerly | Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações SA (1965-1998) |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 16 September 1965 (demerger from Telebrás) |
| Defunct | April 2025 |
| Fate | Absorbed into Claro Empresas |
| Successor | Claro Brasil (since 2015) |
| Headquarters | , Brazil |
Key people | José Formoso Martínez (chairman) |
| Products | Fixed & Mobile telecommunications Internet services Cable television |
| Revenue |  US$ 9.0 billion (2013) |
 US$ 180.0 million (2013) | |
Number of employees | 12,000 |
| Parent | Claro |
| Subsidiaries | Embratel Star One |
| Website | embratel |
Embratel is a major Brazilian telecommunications company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company was the long distance arm of Telebras until it was bought by the U.S. company MCI Communications for 2.65 billion reais during the 1998 break-up of Telebras. However, MCI Communications went bankrupt in 2003. Since 2003, it is owned by América Móvil, the Mexican telecommunications giant.
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Embratel is a major player in both voice and data communication in Brazil. The company owns a fully digitized microwave communications and fiber optic networks as well as eight domestic communication satellites. The company is a member of the Intelsat and Inmarsat organizations and it owns four fiber optics submarine cable systems - UNISUR, Americas II, Atlantis-2 and Columbus III.
In 2013, Embratel started to sponsor the tennisman Thomaz Bellucci. [1]
Embratel's stock was traded on BM&F Bovespa.
