Today is the deadline that Anatel, the Brazilian Regulatory Agency for Telecommunications, received proposals for the auction of mobile concessions covering the states of SP, Alagoa, Pernambuco, Ceará, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte. Auction will take place on March 7th and finally all states in Brazil will have 4 competitors. Besides the concession for mobile services included is the right to explore radio frequency for 15/30 years and fixed line services for long distance and international calls.
The latter definitely needs more competition so prices will fall for int´l calls. Tried to Skype out to Venezuela today - forget it, within South America the quality is poor, Europe and US ok.
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