Where will Google stop? This is a question that everyone has asked for many years during which time the search giant has not ceased to grow larger and to consolidate its position and the revenue associated with it. Since then, the company has begun diversifying it's activities, offering more and more internet services, although it remains dependent on internet service providers. Its first real step towards other mediums than the computer is its Android project: an operating system for mobile phones. And it seems that Google hopes to launch it to the front of this market. The company will be willing to pay $4.6 billion to purchase a part of the 700Mhz frequency band that the United States government is going to auction off in 2008. The stakes are high as these frequencies are interesting. Indeed, they have the advantage of offering an excellent range and permitting speeds interesting enough to imagine the emergence of a great number of communication products, which will most certainly contain the Google logo. It should be pointed out that the mobile market in the United States now approches $100 billion, so Google will most likely recover an important percentage of their investment. [translation by jwa]

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