Jiminator
02-08-2008, 11:16 PM
so it looks like google was not actually interested in purchasing the c block of wireless spectrum.
Google got the FCC to agree to a stipulation: if the slice of airwaves Google was bidding for (known as C-Block) reached $4.6 billion, the winner would have to keep it "open access." This would allow companies and individuals to "use any wireless device and download any mobile broadband application, with no restrictions" on this block of wireless space, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement at the beginning of the auction process earlier this year.
Analysts are speculating that there never was a wireless phone, the bidding was only to get the cost up to where the winner would have to give open access in regards to the bandwidth, thus google will be able to provide software to those verizon cell phones. shees, bet their stock jumps. ($10 today)
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/telecom/article/google-wins-wireless-spectrum-auction-losing_470713_13.html
Google got the FCC to agree to a stipulation: if the slice of airwaves Google was bidding for (known as C-Block) reached $4.6 billion, the winner would have to keep it "open access." This would allow companies and individuals to "use any wireless device and download any mobile broadband application, with no restrictions" on this block of wireless space, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement at the beginning of the auction process earlier this year.
Analysts are speculating that there never was a wireless phone, the bidding was only to get the cost up to where the winner would have to give open access in regards to the bandwidth, thus google will be able to provide software to those verizon cell phones. shees, bet their stock jumps. ($10 today)
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/telecom/article/google-wins-wireless-spectrum-auction-losing_470713_13.html