Global Village Telecom (GVT) was a Brazilian telecommunications company that offers services on landline telephone, broadband for both consumer and business, Pay TV and voice over IP and belongs to Telefónica, through Telefônica Brasil.

The region for which GVT won the license had a population of 38 million people at the time and encompasses nine states, including the country's capital, Brasilia.

GVT is a company that offers high-speed broadband across its area of operation, pay TV with paid high-definition channels, as well as integrated and convergent advanced landline telephony.

Strategically, GVT built a network prepared for the convergence of voice, data and image, enabling it to offer higher than market average speeds since the beginning of its operation in 2000.

The index is greater than the average speed of Brazilian Internet (2.4 Mbit/s) and countries with large technology development as South Korea (13.3 Mbit/s) and USA (8.6 Mbit/s) – source: Akamai Institute.

Currently, GVT backbone covers 20 states: Acre, Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Rondônia, Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe, Tocantins, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, plus Distrito Federal (Brazil capital).

São Paulo Minas Gerais Espírito Santo Rio de Janeiro Mato Grosso Goiás Mato Grosso do Sul Distrito Federal Alagoas Bahia Ceará Paraíba Pernambuco Rio Grande do Norte Sergipe Acre Rondônia Tocantins GVT TV was a Brazilian satellite pay-TV operator subsidiary of Global Village Telecom, where its signal transmission was made in a hybrid way by IPTV and DTH (Direct to Home) systems by Ku Band[15][16].

GVT TV stood out for being the first to make HDTV[17] channels available in all its packages and provide interactive content such as Access to Social Networks (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), weather forecast and much more, directly from its decoder device.

In order to offer a better experience for customers, the operator created a kind of contingency when the satellite stops working by taking advantage of the Internet network.

With this, the operator started to offer three modes of pay TV: IPTV, for customers who contract fiber optic internet service.