Comments on: Breaking: FCC Confirms that Big Winner in Spectrum Auction is Verizon. So Why Is Google Smiling?

By: Software Outsourcing services

Software Outsourcing services — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:56:22 +0000

The real winner here is Google precisely because it lost. Google committed to bidding the minimum $4.6 billion that would trigger open device and open application rules that it had lobbied for, but nobody seriously thought it actually wanted to win the auction. Building out and operating a wireless network is a much lower-margin business than search advertising, and even leasing out the spectrum would have been a distraction. But by putting its $4.6 billion on the table early, it was able to dictate the new rules of the game. Rules that Verizon is now stuck with. All Google really wants are broadband wireless networks that cannot discriminate against Google mobile apps or Android phones no matter who operates them.

By: supriyanta » Blog Archive » Google Usulkan Wifi 2.0

supriyanta » Blog Archive » Google Usulkan Wifi 2.0 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:51:43 +0000

[...] Google untuk menggunakan frekuensi kosong ini dimulai hanya beberapa hari setelah kegagalannya untuk mendapatkan lisensi pemakaian spektrum 700MHz dalam pelelangan yang dilakukan FCC minggu [...]

By: YouTube and Yahoo Logos Offer One Last Reminder About The TV Broadcast Transition | Techdare

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:02:43 +0000

[...] start actually using it. The auction of those airwaves by the FCC raised nearly $20 billion, with Verizon taking a large chunk of the coveted C-block. You probably remember hearing about the auction on a lot of tech sites [...]

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Sun, 31 May 2009 18:20:00 +0000

[...] and powerful brokerage houses. And in 2008, the company couldn’t resist participating in the FCC’s auction to reallocate portions of the radio [...]

By: Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability | Frustration Factor News and Articles

Tue, 26 May 2009 17:16:14 +0000

[...] and powerful brokerage houses. And in 2008, the company couldn’t resist participating in the FCC’s auction to reallocate portions of the radio [...]

By: Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability | JustAnotherincome

Tue, 26 May 2009 05:59:20 +0000

[...] and powerful brokerage houses. And in 2008, the company couldn’t resist participating in the FCC’s auction to reallocate portions of the radio [...]

By: Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability | India Forums

Tue, 26 May 2009 04:13:26 +0000

[...] and powerful brokerage houses. And in 2008, the company couldn’t resist participating in the FCC’s auction to reallocate portions of the radio [...]

By: Android: What does it mean? « Chacha102’s Opinion’s and General Rants

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:15:08 +0000

[...] To add even more to that anticipation, Google had been pushing for the wireless spectrum opened up by the digital switch for Television Broadcasters. On Feburary 17, 2009 all TV broadcasters, broadcasting over analog signals, low channels like 1-20, would have to switch to digital broadcastings, freeing up a large set of airwaves that the FCC auctioned off. Google proposed that whoever owned these new spectrum had to open it up to any device, and the FCC agreed. This made a thought that Google would release a phone using that spectrum, because anyone could use it. (The Wireless Spectrum was won buy Verizon.) [...]

By: www.ubraniaroxy.pl » Blog Archive » Why Google Invested in Clearwire

www.ubraniaroxy.pl » Blog Archive » Why Google Invested in Clearwire — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:01:18 +0000

[...] $4.6 billion in the recent FCC spectrum auctions (which it ended up not having to pay because it lost to Verizon), is backing the WiFi 2.0 initiative, and today it announced that it plunked down $500 million to [...]

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Why Google Invested in Clearwire - KDI Media - Savannah, GA — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:44:27 +0000

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Why Google Invested in Clearwire — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:32:32 +0000

By: Jammed Shut: Google Is Worried What Verizon Might Have For Future Customers Behind Door No. 2

Tue, 06 May 2008 01:09:12 +0000

[...] billion simply to ensure that the open access rules it fought for would be imposed on whoever won. Verizon won, and now it must allow allow any device and any application to run on the future wireless broadband [...]

By: Google Usulkan Wifi 2.0 « the blog for all

Google Usulkan Wifi 2.0 « the blog for all — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:14:09 +0000

By: Software Development Outsourcing

Software Development Outsourcing — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:34:41 +0000

Verizon won the bid now we will see how they will use it

By: www.teletubis.info » Blog Archive » Google Reveals Spectrum Auction Strategy

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:54:43 +0000

[...] the recent wireless spectrum auctions that just brought the FCC $19.6 billion in license fees, there was a lot of speculation about what [...]

By: Google Reveals Spectrum Auction Strategy

Google Reveals Spectrum Auction Strategy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:54:20 +0000

[...] the recent wireless spectrum auctions that just brought the FCC $19.6 billion in license fees, there was a lot of speculation about what [...]

By: Google Throws Another Wireless Ball in The Air: WiFi 2.0 | Alex McFarlane

Google Throws Another Wireless Ball in The Air: WiFi 2.0 | Alex McFarlane — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:31:36 +0000

[...] sooner does Google exit the FCC’s 700Mhz spectrum auction with its $4.6 billion still in its pocket and its rules imposed on its competitors than it throws [...]

By: Google Throws Another Wireless Ball in The Air: WiFi 2.0

Google Throws Another Wireless Ball in The Air: WiFi 2.0 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:36:11 +0000

[...] sooner does Google exit the FCC’s 700Mhz spectrum auction with its $4.6 billion still in its pocket and its rules imposed on its competitors than it throws [...]

By: » Shared in Google Reader: Google Throws Another Wireless Ball in The Air: WiFi 2.0 South By South West Midlands

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:17:38 +0000

[...] sooner does Google exit the FCC’s 700Mhz spectrum auction with its $4.6 billion still in its pocket and its rules imposed on its competitors than it throws [...]

By: Dave Klinn

Dave Klinn — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:39:22 +0000

Fact: Verizon won the auction.
Prediction: How “open” Verizon will be in the future will have to be seen. US regulators don’t have a history of enforcing competition.

Your whole article is a copy of the spin of two Google counsels on the (official) Google Public Policy blog.

By: Menashe

Menashe — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:49:08 +0000

Erick
So let me get the gist of your masterpiece article. Google won because it lost?
Jeez Erick something I wonder how come they let you continue writing for TC. Hope you didn’t put much more than 2 minutes of analysis into this great piece of nonesense.

By: Wolke Snow

Wolke Snow — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:03:35 +0000

Great spin by Google. They lost the auction. How Verizon finally “interprets” openness will have to be seen.

Erick, why are you NOT TELLING us that your article is based on this article on the Google Public Policy blog
http://googlepu...hz-auction.html written by Google counsels?

Cnet is at least linking to the original spin doctors in their news blog
http://www.news...7.html?part=rss

You’re on fast track to become the next Duncan Riley.