Algar Telecom

Algar Telecom

Type	Private
Industry	Telecommunications
Predecessor	Companhia de Telecomunicações do Brasil Central (CTBC)
Founded	February 15, 1954 (62 years)
Founder	Alexandrino Garcia
Headquarters	Uberlândia, Brazil
Key people	Jean Borges (CEO)
Products	Fixed and mobile telephony, Broadband Internet, Pay TV, Voice and data solutions, IT, Outsourcing, Videoconferencing, Clear Channel, SMS, IP Traffic and consultant media.
Revenue	R$ 2,2 billion (2015)
Net income	R$ 116 million (2015)
Number of employees	3,700 (2015)
Parent	Grupo Algar
Subsidiaries	Algar Celular S/A Algar Multimídia S/A Algar TI Consultoria S/A Algar Mídia S/A CTBC Serviços de Call Center S/A
Website	algartelecom.com.br

Algar Telecom is a Brazilian telecommunications company present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, and in the Federal District as well. The company is the only operator that remained private, even after the creation of Telebrás in the military regime, and it is characterized as the fifth largest company in the telecommunications segment. It serves more than one million and four hundred thousand customers - individuals, micro and small businesses, corporate customers, and carriers.

Algar Telecom, headquartered in Uberlândia - State of Minas Gerais, is one of the companies of Grupo Algar and was founded with the name CTBC - Companhia de Telecomunicações do Brasil Central on February 15, 1954, by Alexandrino Garcia, who acquired Companhia Telefônica Teixeirinha. Alexandrino was 47 years old when he started the business in the telephony industry and began, at the time, to personally sell the services of the company, something that inspired the purpose and the vision of the company: "People serving people".

Initially, the company worked with a focus on the countryside, in the well-known "Central Brazil," covering part of the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo. Later, it started to cover the region of Alta Mogiana, in São Paulo, the east of Mato Grosso do Sul, the region of Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba - Minas Gerais - and the southern region of the state of Goiás.

Its area of operation includes the main capitals of Brazil and their surroundings, including São Paulo, Campinas, Ribeirão Preto, São José do Rio Preto, Goiânia, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Uberlândia, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Balneário Camboriú, Florianópolis, and Porto Alegre, among others.