Helio Forte works inside his repair shop in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil on Tuesday April 30, 2002. Forte repairs old telephones and also does replicas of vintage telephones. Often paraded as poster children for massive privatizations that revolutionized South America's largest economy, Brazil's telcoms giants are lobbying for state favors to beat what some complain is a crisis so deep it could silence the country's phone system.(AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)