Geography of Telecommunications in Brazil: an synthesis effort

Abstract

Society experiences, in the present technical era, deep transformations coming, mostly, from the increasing in telecommunication services and information technologies that redirect, in many ways, the accumulation process, capital enlargement, as well as the articulation nets and territorial management. In methodological and practical terms, on one side we observe a crescent incorporation of information and telecommunication technologies in the economic production and material items; on the other side we verify the intensification of the inequality, complementarity and antagonism phenomena among bigger spaces with more technical density and others with less infrastructure material and innovation. Therefore, in the mediation between the State and the private sector, in use of the territory, there are conflicts, symbiosis and appropriations that need to be better evaluated in Geography. With that, the analysis of private telecommunication companies is taken as a conduit and major objective for air space reading for cable TV, cellular phones and internet; at the moment that Brazil is going through many social air space transformations, with the expansion of technical territorial density, in the recent period.