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H U M A N R E S O U R C E S / The The Telebras system maintains a Pension Fund for its em­

Armed Forces Engineering Institutes, for more than 20 ployees.

years, had been graduating electronic engineers, a lot of

them with post-graduating courses taken into famous

foreign universities. When Telebrâs was created, there In 1979, was inaugurated, in Brasilia, the National Tele­

bras Training Center where a telecommunications mini­
was already a large number of available engineers, who

system is being installed in order to provide a technical/
were employed by the system. This is one of the reasons

operational training approsching real conditions.
for the fast expansion of telecommunications in Brazil.

A special attention is given to training in digital

Today, the companies of the Telebrâs system amount to 97 techniques; for this purpose, a program has been esta­

blished and it has already started. In 1980, the training
thousands employees, representing 13,3 employees per

one thousand telephones. Training centers are installed in expenses reached 1.2 billion.

several states, and the number of trainees is about 40

thousands per year.

C h a r t 6

HUMAN RESOURCES

— —

Number of Employees Number of

Period Employees per 1000 Trainees

(1.000) Telephones (1.000)

1972 54 30 NA

1973 61 30 NA

1974 70 27 24

1975 75 25 29

1976 85 22 39

1977 86 19 60

1978 92 17 78

1979 94 15 62

1980 97 13,3 39

NA = Data not available

R E S E A R C H A N D D E V E ­ T EC H N O LO G Y / After the accomplish­

L O P M E N T C E N T E R / The con- ments regarding industry nationalization (see Table 6), in­

duction of the scientific and technologic development cluding the ones with transnational activities, Brazil is

of the telecommunications area, is entrusted to Telebras trying to create its own technology. Programas are being

Research and Development Center, in Campinas, Sao developped regarding; aluminium cables, optical fibers,

Paulo state, which headquarters, covering 24 thousand digital equipment, test equipment, various antennae, in­

square meters, (258 thousand sq. feet.) was inaugu­ cluding active and passive repeaters, and multiplex sys­
tems.
rated in 1980.

Table 6
NATIONALIZATION INDEX TELECOMMUNICATION

Major programs: EQUIPMENTS MANUFACTURED IN BRAZIL

— Optical communications

— Digital transmission

• 120. channels PCM multiplex (MCP 120)
Values in (%) percentuais

• 480 channels PCM multiplex - EQUIPMENT
1979 1980
• Telegraphic multiplex (MDT-101B)

— Data transmission: — Switching systems _ Electromechanical Crossbar type 96 97

• experimental packet switching — Electromechanical Crosspoint type 88 91

— Satellite Communications: — FDM Multiplex 85 88

• TV reception earth terminal (ERTV) V) _ PCM Multiplex 83 85

• public telephony earth terminal (ETP) — Microwaves Radio 85 85

— Digital Radio 60 70
— Components and materials

- UHF Radio 85 • 85
— Telecommunications systems

- VHF Radio 85 85
• interference between earth systems (1ST)
— Electromechanical teleprinter 80 85

• performance of radiowave links (DER)

— Terminal equipment and networks