Suspending Services for Saving Money
Here in Brazil there are some resolutions from government organizations which allow you to suspend temporarily some services, like cable TV, Internet and telephone. Those services can be suspended for a period from 30 to 120 days, which can be useful if you intend to travel for a month, or more, or just if you want to reduce your expenses for this period, without having to cancel your contract. Instead of the resolutions and their correspondent article and texts being distinct, depending on the service, the main text says basically the same: "The subscriber, that is updated with your payments, can request to the services provider, with no cost, the suspension of the services, once in each period of 12 months, for a minimum of 30 days and a maximum of 120 days, keeping the possibility of reactivation of services, without cost, in the same address on your contract. § 1º It's forbidden to charge any money referring to the service providing, in case of suspen...