Originally Posted by
higo
You can buy a prepaid SIM Card from a kiosk without a CPF. Unfortunately the SIM will only work only for receiving calls and texts until you activate them with a CPF. The activation will be needed to make calls.
That might just work. I mainly want to be able to be contacted locally by my local contact folks.
If you are staying just for a week, perhaps it could be easier to ask a Brazilian friend to 'borrow' you his/her CPF number, or for the friend to activate the phone for you rather than going through the obtaining-the-CPF-process.
I'll ask one of the local contact folks if they'll activate the SIM for me after I get there. Even if they won't, being able to receive calls was my primary motivator. I was even looking into getting a skype number for brazil, but they are not available.