| reply to Ahrenl
The 700 mhz band requires one-half to one-quarter of the number of towers that the 1800mhz phone band requires. An ideal 700mhz tower can cover a radius of 20 miles, similar to the old 800mhz phone bands. Now that towers are already in place, leasing space is cheap and installation easy. Power and other infrastructure is already in place. The cost of equiptment to handle TCPIP over radio is cheap.
Today, you can "back-haul" your data with tower to tower microwave and can possibly have no connections to the phone network. In the past, towers required expensive T-1 to t-3 lines right to the tower base.
It is doable.
Also, Google file a "shelf registration" with the SEC in February, 2007 for issuing up to 3 million shares. A approved shelf registration means you can issue the stock in 30-45 days. In theory, GOOG could raise 3,000,000 times the current stock price($700+?) minus a few bucks by new years day. You do the math. The money is there. With the money, you can hire all of the best wireless talent you need. THey are looking for work, phone networks are built-out.
Tell me a company than manages the world's largest wide web server and data communications network can't manage a US wireless network. |
