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We Want the Airwaves, Baby …

in News on January 31, 2008 at 6:56 am PT

A bid of $4.7 billion in the Federal Communications Commission’s 700-MHz auction pushed the nationwide C block over its $4.6 billion reserve price this morning, triggering the spectrum’s open-access provision. Great news for Google, which sought the provision that requires the winning bidder to open the C block spectrum to all devices and software applications. [...]