| reply to Dogfather
Re: Add affirmative action to the bidding This was posted in a recent S&V contractor mag.
"We now know who the winners are. On March 20, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that telecom giants Verizon Wireless and AT&T took home the big prizes. Verizon bid $9.6 billion for most of the licenses in the prime 700MHz radio spectrum. AT&T won most of the regional licenses with bids totaling $6.6 billion.
While Google did bid on the spectrum, its top bid barely surpassed the $4.6-billion minimum. It was enough clout to give the online search king what it really wanted: making certain that spectrum owners can't block out Internet or telecom rivals."
looks like the BIG guys won |
