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SigEx Telecom : Google wants partners
by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

Owning the most popular Internet search engine,Google may bid at least $4.6 bilion for wireless airwaves in a federal auction. Partnerships with phone companies may promote Google's technology, a strategy resembling that of chipmaker Intel Corp., which underwrites companies that it expects will help spur semiconductor sales in the long run. Sacca never said what companies were considered by Google potential partners. After beating Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in the search industry, Google poses a threat to AT&T and Verizon, said Daniel Briere, chief executive officer of TeleChoice Inc., a consulting and research firm in Mansfield Center, Connecticut. AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone companies, oppose the wholesale-leasing plan. They plan to buy some of the spectrum to expand their high-speed Internet services, which only work with devices and software they approve. "This is actually preventing the largest number of people who could possibly have access to the Internet from having that access," Sacca said. A partnership with a phone company would allow Google to have unfettered use of a wireless network without owning and managing it. Intel forged a similar relationship in July 2006 when the world's largest semiconductor maker invested $600 million in Clearwire Corp. to promote a high-speed wireless technology called WiMax.

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

SigEx Telecom is quickly becoming the leading telebroadcasting communications provider allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share video clips through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, websites, blogs, video-mails and SMS. SigEx Telecom captures many add-on services for its clients generating royalties and fees in a broad spectrum of marketing services including public relations and promotions.

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