ib50MbSoon
Formerly TwoKDialup
Premium
join:2002-06-07
Coloma, MI | Maybe...
we should just give Google the spectrum and $44 Billion in USF funds and see what kind of a network they can build.
--
Meet Bill and Karolyn at www.theslowskys.com |
|
jgkolt
Premium
join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
clubs: | along with thier data mining techniques and that money should prove to be interesting
--
www.LakeSemaJ.com |
|
TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·Comcast
1 edit |  FCC Majority Behind Open Access
»www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/···481.html
A majority of the Federal Communications Commission told a House subcommittee that they support an "open access" requirement on one swath of airwaves that will be auctioned early next year.
A broader open access provision, however, supported by Google, received limited support from the two Democrats on the commission and was opposed by Martin.
The two Democrats on the commission supported Martin's limited open-access provision while Martin's fellow Republicans said they were undecided.
The auction has yet to be scheduled but is required by law to take place by Jan. 28, 2008. The commission could vote on the rules as early as next week.
If the full commission votes to include the special provisions on the 22 megahertz spectrum slice subject to the open-access provision, the licenses would have to attract a minimum $4.6 billion bid. If the minimum bid is not met, the conditions would be stripped and the spectrum would be re-auctioned. Martin siding with the 2 Dems on the FCC. Now that is a surprise.
And the fact that there is a MINIMUM bid of $4.6 billion or the open access provisions would be stripped is interesting too. Wasn't Google's stated bid amount $4.6 billion. Coincidence? Which came 1st? The minimum amount or Google's bid? Is the fix in for Google?
--
--
Internet News
My BLOG
My Web Page |
|
Subaru
1-3-2-4
Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT
clubs: | I'm sure it came after google. |
|
DGLewis
join:2006-03-10
Freehold, NJ | You're surely wrong.
The draft order included a $4.6B reserve price; Schmidt referenced it in his letter and committed to bid $4.6B. |
|
Subaru
1-3-2-4
Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT
clubs: | so? google will offer more money and the FCC will say Oh we ment to say $8.6 billion |
|
packetscan
Premium
join:2004-10-19
Bridgeport, CT
clubs: | Open access
MA BELL OWNZ JOO!
Has been and ALWAYS will be.
--
Reach out and Tap someone! |
|
NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX
| Buy most or all of it google you can afford it.
Google is the only company out there with enough spare cash to actually buy it all.
Telco's will be fighting tooth and nail over this spectrum since the lower frequencies penetrate obstacles better than the higher cellular frequencies.
Still I'd say it's possible they could buy enough to provide full coverage if they wanted to. It's time google took some risks.
--
Mac Chatter
»www.macchatter.net |
|
grandpinaple
join:2006-01-03
New York, NY
1 edit | I hope Google goes all the way
Just so they stick it to the Telcos. It would be worth the billions of dollars just to see their shocked faces when Google owns them in the money throwing contest. I hope Google does something with the spectrum though. |
|
a98308349823
join:2007-07-03
Portsmouth, NH
| goog
The telecoms bidding on this bandwidth are business looking to make a profit. the more they pay for the auction, the more you as a consumer pays for the product.
Very simple: They buy the Mhz licence, they mark it up, provide service and sell it back to you so you can use your cell phone.
Google is trying to lower the bar they have to pay so they can offer services to you, the customer at a lower price. Imagine if logging on the Google Cell/Internet was $2 month with unlimited internet. Heck, maybe even free with ads.
The logic is simple, the less they spend, the less they will need to mark it in order to make a profit.
So, if the FCC doesnt make as much this year selling "air" who cares. It will be a huge technological leap for the USA when companies like google help the USA with wireless broadband. |
|
jagged
join:2003-07-01
Boynton Beach, FL | Of course
Of course they won't, AT&T and the likes can't compete when they aren't a monopoly |
|
Richard B
Fur It Up
join:2007-06-22
Portland, OR
·Comcast
| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: FCC Majority Behind Open Access
Google simply is trying to rig the Auction. Instead of competing with other companies Google want to jump ahead of the line by running a scam by offering to pay the reserve bid if the FCC agree to their open access rules. These rules are simply design deter the competition mainly the telecoms from bidding against them. Also by taking the auction off the table if any telecoms want to use the spectrum it will be Google's way or the high way.
Google has been playing the net activist like a fiddle with Neutrality and this auction. If Google cannot buy a company, they will buy politicians instead.
There is an ok article by Holman W. Jenkins Jr who edits Political Diary in the WSJ today. Also the Wall Street Journal Opinion Board has been doing a good job of keep up and exposing Google's doings. |
|
morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000
clubs: | you are hilarious! insert TELCO in almost every place you have written google and it makes much more sense. |
|
TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
| said by morbo  :you are hilarious! insert TELCO in almost every place you have written google and it makes much more sense. I guess you haven't tumbled yet to the fact that Google is a corporation, just like any other, that is in the business of making money for the stockholders. Any altruism that they still cloak themselves in is to fool the sadly deluded people who buy in to their marketing hype as "Google the Good".
--
--
Internet News
My BLOG
My Web Page |
|
bi0tech
join:2003-06-19 | Who said Google was altruistic?
They just seem to understand you don't have to slap on the cuffs as you bend people over, you can give them a little freedom to choose and still make a killing. |
|
ross
join:2000-08-16 | reply to TKJunkMail
I'll trust Google before AT&T any day. |
|
CyBrChRsT
join:2003-02-28
Kansas City, MO |  Me too...
I have really been rooting for GOOG to get this.  |
|
Richard B
Fur It Up
join:2007-06-22
Portland, OR | reply to ross
Re: FCC Majority Behind Open Access
Amazing!
If this was AT&T trying to rig the auction you would be screaming but becasue it is Google you are going to give them a pass?
|
|
Taget
join:2004-07-29
| Let's just get it done with....
...give all the spectrum to Verizon and AT&T and give them approal to merge. It's going to happen anyway so why not just get over with and do it all now rather than dragging it out.
If google seriously wanted to do something instead of offering to invest in new technologies they should've bought themselves some congressmen, senators, and fcc commisioners. They had everything backwards. |
|
fcccankissmy
@rogers.com | Google there is always Canada
Remember Google there is Always Canada.. our 700Mhz spectrum should be up for grabs after 2009 i say 2-3years later.. |
|
