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Re: Noooooo...Really?
said by TK Junk Mail  :No, they want all the benefit without any of the risk. Let someone else take the chance. And that is why the current big players(cable and telcos) will continue to rule. I think that you're still operating under the assumption that MS/Google have any intentions whatsoever to utilize the spectrum allocation. It's an obvious blocking maneuver on their part.
Debt-free corporate giants like MS/Google can afford to throw an amount of cash that's chump change to them at "developing" markets that they want to dominate without any effort. The best way to do that is to stifle development by anyone. And in this case, that can be accomplished by buying up chunks of spectrum, and just sitting on them.
Without regulation, it's a win-win for the corporate leviathans. They can still sell the rights to the spectrum, usually at a profit, if they want or need to. And if it looks like some enterprising people might eat their lunch on some other band, they can always use the frequencies for their intended purpose.
What's surprising here is that the FCC is actually doing its job for the first time in years. I guess that someone there noticed that 2008 is nigh, and that odds are that sitting on their hands isn't going to provide job security. |
