Brazilian mobile start-up Unicel, which trades under the banner aeiou, has selected managed hosting firm Alog Data Centers to host its switching centre and services platform, according to BNamericas citing a company statement. The newcomer was successful in winning 2G spectrum for the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo in April 2007 and launched commercial operations last month over a network with capacity for one million users.

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