If anyone here is trying to call someone in Sao Paulo, and fairly soon for the rest of the country, there is a new dialing system being adopted when calling cell phones. For a few months, either method will be acceptable. But in the future between the city code for Sao Paulo of "11" and the 8-digit phone number, you will need to add the number "9" if calling from outside the city or just add a "9" to the front of the 8-digit phone number. Globo reported that at sometime in the next year or so, this will also be happening for Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and elsewhere.

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