| More deatils on the bidders The accepted for filing list:
»hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/a···30A2.pdf
Includes Google.
The list of companies with incomplete applications:
»hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/a···30A3.pdf
Includes AT&T, "Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless", Cox, "CSC Spectrum Holdings aka Cablevision", Cincinnati Bell Wireless.
Here is a non-PDF version of ALL the bidders:
»thirdpipe.com/2007/12/19/700mhz-···rs-list/
To summarize, here are the companies most have heard of that are bidding:
Google (GOOG) Airwaves Inc.
Towerstream (TWER)
Vulcan Spectrum, apparently a company connected with investor Paul Allen.
Alltel, which earlier this year was taken private by TPG and Goldman Sachs.
AT&T (T) Mobility Spectrum
CenturyTel (CTL) Broadband Wireless
Chevron (CHV) (Why Chevron is bidding I have no idea.)
Cincinnati Bell (CBB) Wireless
Cox Wireless (Which I assume is connected to Cox Cable)
Iowa Telecommunications Services (IWA)
MetroPCS (PCS) 700 MHz LLC
Qualcomm (QCOM)
Cablevision (CVC), bidding as CSC Spectrum Holdings
Verizon Wireless (VZ, VOD), bidding as Cellco Partnership
Advance/Newhouse, controlled by the Newhouse family, owners of various publishing and cable assets.
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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$20 billion auction. Google could sell a few shares and buy it all. Google could then tell everyone that wants to charge them, like AT&T, "Ha, Ha, we own all that wireless spectrum now. By the way, you want to 'borrow' some? How about a $1 million a day?"
If Google really wants to smash cell cos, they should buy it all.
What the hell does the IHOP want with it? Wireless pancakes? 
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said by KrK:LOL I love the way the big boys try to hide behind a shell company. Why? Do they think it fools someone? More likely it's so that rules and regulations won't affect the parent, only the shell company. If you are talking about quote:
Verizon Wireless (VZ, VOD), bidding as Cellco Partnership
Verizon Communications owns 55% of the company; Vodafone owns 45%. of Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless. |
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Google won't be buying it. They will only bid up to 4.5 billion and then drop out (its expected to sell for up to 10 billion). They lobbied long ago to make this an open network no matter who wins, and the deal was as long as its 4.5 billion, then it will be open. Thats what they want, then they can get their software on the phones that are sold, or at least give the customer the choice. Back when this took place everyone thought 4.5 would be alot, the value has gone up dramatically. Google was pretty smart about it, and they won't have to spend billions developing themselves as a network carrier, they don't want to win it, they just want it open. |
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said by batterup:said by KrK:LOL I love the way the big boys try to hide behind a shell company. Why? Do they think it fools someone? More likely it's so that rules and regulations won't affect the parent, only the shell company. If you are talking about quote:
Verizon Wireless (VZ, VOD), bidding as Cellco Partnership
Verizon Communications owns 55% of the company; Vodafone owns 45%. of Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless. Verizon has operated under the Cellco Partnership alias since before Vodafone's involvement, it dates back to the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX Mobile properties.
No hiding there, it has been like that for at least 10 years already.
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CVX Chevron has more money then they know what to do with right now. They're buying back 10 billion in stock and still have piles of cash. I'm long CVX for you stock people, I'm interested in where they are going with this. These guys can drop billions without a thought. |
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said by KrK:LOL I love the way the big boys try to hide behind a shell company. Why? Do they think it fools someone? More likely it's so that rules and regulations won't affect the parent, only the shell company. ???
It doesn't say Shell, it says Chevron  |
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| said by Tsume:It doesn't say Shell, it says Chevron Go to your room and double-click for what the internet was made for. |
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my concern is do they know what they are doing? sure they can afford it (like any of the oil companies, for the past several years), but when a company moves away from their core business I wonder about their expertise in the new area... |
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said by supergirl:What the hell does the IHOP want with it? Wireless pancakes? Read a little closer or look at the actual list:
there are a few interesting bidders such as Chevron and the International House of Pancakes (we're kidding about one of those)
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LOL |
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