Google Loses Wireless Auction, But Wins Anyway
Friday, March 21st, 2008;
-- Andy Beal |
While it would have been interesting to see what Google would have done, if it had won some of the new wireless airwaves, the company’s satisfied with it’s role as disrupter.
As Reuters reports…
Nevertheless, the auction was seen as a victory for Google, since the bidding was high enough to trigger the “open-platform” rules it requested for the nationwide airwaves eventually won by Verizon.
Google called it a victory for American consumers. “Consumers soon should begin enjoying new, Internet-like freedom to get the most out of their mobile phones and other wireless devices,” said a statement from Google lawyers Richard Whitt and Joseph Faber.
As we reported yesterday, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc and Frontier Wireless, took the lion’s share of new airwaves. The auctions raised a record $19.12 billion for the government.
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March 21st, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Do we really think that AT&T and Verizon are bothered by the fact they have to pretend to adhere to some loosely enforceable conditions crafted by an FCC they’ve effectively run for the last decade?
I do take issue with this continuing meme that a Google loss was really a “win”….
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-The-Wireless-Tease-92842
March 21st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
We’ve all said “we didn’t want it anyway” after a heavy defeat. Reminds me of being back in the school yard.
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 pm
its called “sour graping” folks. maybe its hard for big shots like google to accept defeat or being out done.