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Internet Bars

Tudo e facil
Rua Xavier da Silveira 19 loga B - Copacabana: Tel: 522 - 3970
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 10 am to Midnight,  Sunday 3 pm to 10 pm.

@rroba Café
Av. das Américas, 4.666 - Barra da Tijuca Tel.: 431 - 9727
Opening hours: Daily, from noon until the last client leaves

Comprio
Rua da Assembléia, 10 basement 114 - Centre Tel.: 533 - 4372
Opening hours: From Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 6,30 pm

Internethouse
Av.Nossa Senhora de Copacabana 195 lj106 - Copacabana Tel.: 542 - 3348
Opening hours: From Monday to Friday, from 9,30 am to 10 pm; Saturday, from 9:30 am to 8 pm

Post Offices

Centro
Av. Presidente Vargas, 3077 - Tel.: 503 - 8222
Rua Primeiro de Março, 64 - Tel.: 503 - 8331
     

Botafogo
Praia de Botafogo, 324 - Tel.: 503 - 8496

Copacabana/Leme
Av. Nossa Senhora de Copacabana, 540-A -Tel.: 503 - 8398
     

Ipanema
Rua Visconde de Pirajá, 452 - Tel.: 503 - 8568
     

Leblon
Av Ataulfo de Paiva, 822 - Tel.: 503 - 8388
     

Barra da Tijuca
Av. Olegário Maciel, 30 - Tel.: 503 - 8105
     

Ilha do Governador
Rio de Janeiro International Airport, 3rd floor

Urgent Messages & Rapid Delivery Services

Speed Boy Tel.: 252 - 5331 / 3881 - 5939

Boy Service Tel.: 543 - 4545

Boy Time Tel.: 224 - 5055 / 507 -. 6008 
www.boytime.com.br

Rapidex (all over Brazil) Tel.: 240 - 5297

Deex Delivery (all over Brazil) Tel.: 241 - 0004 
deex@deexrj.com.br

Vaspex (all over Brazil) Tel.: 0800 - 14 - 7222

Federal Express (international) Tel.: 0800 - 90 - 3333 / 262. - 3794

TNT Express Worldwide Tel.: 284 - 9075 
www.tntew.com tntrio@amcham.com.br

Phone Services
     

Codes for international and interurban calls
From abroad to Brazil. Brazil code is: 55 / Rio code is: 21

Codes for interstate, national and international calls
Interurban and International calls from Rio de Janeiro are known according to DDD (Discagem Direta à Distância) and DDI (Discagem Direta Internacional) codes.

To make a call, you must use the telephone operating company’s number before the country or city code desired.

The following examples help to illustrate this:

Interurban calls (DDD): 0 + operating company number + two numbers of the city you wish to call + telephone number

International calls (DDI): 00 + operating company number + country code + city code+ telephone number

Emergency Codes

Police
190

City Police Force
399 - 3217

Federal Police (loss of passport)
291 - 21

Civil Defence
199
     
Firemen/Ambulance
193
     
Anjos do Asfalto (road traffic accidents)
590 - 2121
    
Lost and found
159
     
Special Tourist Service Police Branch
511 - 5112 / 5767
     
Women’s Police Service
399 - 3690

PROCON (Consumer Protection Service)
1512
Opening hours: from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 5 pm

LIG-LIGHT (Electricity Company)
120

Useful Phone Numbers
 

International Calls via Phone operator 000111
     

Discagem Direta à Distância Information (DDI) 000333
     

Interurban calls via the Phone operator 101
     

Reverse charge (collect) interurban calls 107

Phone telegrams 135
     

International Phone telegrams 000222

Operator assistance 102
     

Telemar assistance 105

Interurban reverse charge (collect) calls 9 (+ city code)
     

Time 130
     

Wake up call 134

Rio de Janeiro Teleporto Tel.: 502.2102

The Teleporto enables companies and free-lance professionals or universities to transmit and receive information in record time via voice, image and data transmission. Av.Presidente Vargas, 3.131 Centre

Operating companies in Rio de Janeiro

Embratel - code number - 21 (national - works from any city in the country or abroad)
Intelig - code number - 23 (national - works from any city in the country or abroad)

Telemar - code number - 31 (local - only works from Rio de Janeiro to other places)
Vesper - code number - 85 (local - only works from Rio de Janeiro to other places)
                                   

NB: When calling from a mobile phone you do not need to use the operating company codes

Phone Companies

Anatel (Government agency that controls telephone companies)
Tel.: 0800-332001

Embratel - Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações
Av. Presidente Vargas, 1.012 - Centre
Tel.: 519-9821 (interurban calls)
     

Telemar- Rio de Janeiro’s telephone line company
Tel: 9029500
     

Telefonica (mobile) Tel.: 1404

ATL (mobile) Tel.: 0800-206020

Emergency Credit Card Numbers

American Express 0800 - 78 - 5050

Master Card 0800.784411

Visa 505 - 5050 www.visa.com.br

Ourocard 0800-990001

Sollo 0800-785088

Diners Club 0800-784444