I have been on a trip to Brazil lately with my mom visiting the Brazillian church that my parents had started as missionaries over 20 years ago.  Personally, it has been great to visit with all our friends down here and to see how the church has grown and has mission works of its own  As a technology consultant it has also been neat to see how technology has grown in the country over the past many years.  There is a lot of ADSL connections here in the country and it is becoming more and more prevalent.  The place that we were staying at in the City of Fortaleza had a DSL connection with the following Speed Test:

It wasn’t bad.  It was fast enough to talk to my family on Skype, and that was good.  The Soccer World Cup is going to be in Brazil in the year 2014 and Fortaleza is going to host some of the games.  They are making a lot of improvements to the city because of that and I am curious to find out what they are going to do regarding Technology upgrades for the city.  I have heard from a Brazilian friend that the government is making Internet more available for the lower middle class population with some sort of legislation, but I couldn’t find any details on that.  I have several friends here that are in the Technology sector.  Some do maintenance on Cell Phone towers, others do CCTV camera installations, Network Cabling, Telephone Systems, you name it.  It will be good for the country to grow their Technology Infrastructre.  I hope they can get that going better than their highway system, though.  That’s a mess.  Good luck Brazil with what the future of technology holds for you.  As we say in Portuguese, Boa Sorte.