The upcoming auction by Federal Communication Commission for the 700MHz spectrum license is a much watched policy action since this would give the consumers a variety of choices for downloading any applications irrespective of the network or devices.

Google is definitely a major contender here and would certainly like to enter the mobile phone world and the asociated Ad revenues which goes along with it.

Who wins ? Consumers says Google. U bet ! Read the complete story.

Chris Sacca, Head of Special Initiatives posts at Google’ official blogite

( VIVO4; NYSE: VIV) is the largest mobile phone service provider in Brazil and in South America with over 28 million users. It originated from the merger of several Brazilian mobile phone operations under a joint-venture owned equally by Portuguese Portugal Telecom and Spanish Telefónica. Most of its network is IS-95/cdmaOne based, although there are parts of it which are still analog AMPS and parts (resulting from acquisition of other companies) which are TDMA (IS-136) based. The network is being gradually converted to CDMA2000.In 2006, after years being the only CDMA network, Vivo announced a GSM network, and that it would operate in both CDMA and GSM^[1].

The Vivo brand was launched on April 13th 2003. Until 2006, the group was composed of six holding companies which, as announced in November 2005, merged into a single holding company, Vivo Participações S.A.. The operation was concluded on February 22nd 2006. Read the rest of this entry »