Inatel
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Inatel is short for Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações, the National Institute of Communications of Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. The Institute is located on a 75,000 m2 campus in Santa Rita do Sapucaí
Santa Rita do Sapucaí
Santa Rita do Sapucai is a little town situated in the southeast of the State of Minas Gerais.The city is known as the "Electronic valley", since it has plenty of electronic industries, and both a technical school and a college which hold courses in electronic knowledge...

 in southern Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

. Founded in 1965, it specializes in Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

 and Telecommunications
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

 education and research.

As of 2007, Intel's monthly tuition was 950 reais
Brazilian real
The real is the present-day currency of Brazil. Its sign is R$ and its ISO code is BRL. It is subdivided into 100 centavos ....

, and about 5,000 students had graduated from the school.

The Instutite sponsors the biennial International Workshop on Telecommunications held in odd-numbered years in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

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Researchers at Inatel publish and review technical papers for international conferences.
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