In this episode, Trevor Hindson and Paul Whalen discuss the continuing saga of the AT&T mergers with recent news that AT&T has filed with the FCC that there are a number of companies vying for the assets that AT&T is required to divest as a result of the SBC merger, encouraging the FCC to close the BellSouth merger. More details can be found in the Telephony article. The advanced wireless spectrum auction completed a short while ago and T-Mobile has been a big purchaser. With all this money being spent on spectrum, what is to be used for? Will social networking go mobile? However it seems that US users are slow to take up 3G services. Perhaps services like Nakama will drive usage, where not only can you post pictures direct from your phone but you get called by the site to then record a message to be tagged with the picture, that should increase revenue. And  finally in a somewhat unrelated story, Firefox 2.0, a free open source browser, was released this week. This is a popular browser in the geekdom and many of the features found in earlier versions have now found their way into the recent Internet Explorer 7. Due to the open nature of the browser many extensions are available from the firefox community, a recent extension I have found to be useful is googlepedia which mashes google and wikipedia results on the same page in split screen.