High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Internet was launched in Brazil in 1988, when the National Research Network, was formed by the academic communities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Since its beginnings, including at its introduction to the general public, in 1995, the Brazilian Internet depended strongly on efforts led by the Federal Government, namely via the Ministry of Communications and the state-owned communications company Embratel and its holding, Telebras. This changed in 1998, as a result of the privatization of Telebras, and the blossoming of private groups, such as Telefonica, Telemar and Brasil Telecom. With the surge of competition for customers, coupled with government-imposed requirements, came improvements in cost, quality and availability of the Internet to Brazilians. Currently, there are about 67 million internet users in Brazil. With the world's fifth-largest population overall, this puts Brazil also with the fifth-largest contingent of internet users.

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