Reflection so far...

This week was directly focused on getting our semester project proposals fixed up so that we can work forward on them for the semester. For my project I have decided to do a How-To on a person going from the US to Sao, Paulo Brazil and what they would need to do in terms of getting their cell phone coverage to work and what it would cost to make international calls with a US phone, and also if you were to purchase a phone down there; how much the costs would be. I know you can use you US phone to talk in other countries and just pay the roaming fees. While this might end up costing a lot of money it might be cheaper in the long run if you aren't making many long distant phone calls and talking for a long period of time. I will figure out exactly what is going on in these scenarios throughout the semester.

I had also started to look into the types of broadcasting that is used for the television in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I haven't gotten very deep into this section beside talking to some people who are living down there, but the conversation takes a little while because of the Portuguese to English translations. Between having friends help me translate and the internet translation tool, this might take a little while if my friends aren't available when I need to translate things, :)  I will make it work out though in the long run.

To narrow things down I will narrow the field down to just having US cell phone users communicate with Brazilians. I was thinking about doing it on a larger scale but that would provide to be very difficult and vague because I would need to see the various pricing rates for different countries and how they would compare to US vs Brazil rate monetarily. So in seeing this I have decided to just go with Brazil to US rates on cell phone usage. If I can find information on satellite phones, I might input a small little bit about that into my project. That is pending I can find anything about rate or information about that.