700mhz Spectrum Auction "Google" deal is in - FCC Gives Google Half a Win says Paul Kapustka over at GigaOm.
"…The FCC took real but incomplete progress this afternoon,” said Rick Whitt, Google’s lead policy exec, in a conference call Tuesday afternoon, lauding the openness conditions but lamenting the omission of rules enforcing wholesale access to the spectrum. When asked if Google would still bid on the spectrum, Whitt said Google “didn’t say it wouldn’t,” meaning that Google will make that decision at a later date.
"..the 700 MHz auction rulemaking is finally in, and as expected the commission adopted some of the open-networking proposals championed by Google, but not all. While Google carefully lauds the FCC for its action in a post on the company’s public policy blog, both Google and other observers (like the analysts at Stifel, Nicolaus) are guessing that the fine print in the rules (they will likely be published in a couple weeks) will make it extremely hard for any new national provider to surface. Official releases now are on the
No info yet on theFCC site; the rules passed on a 4-1 vote, with commissioner Robert McDowell, the new friend of the incumbent telcos, as the only commish against Martin’s plan. "
I've written about this before in Open Spectrum 700mHZ Google Sanctioned Auction and 700mhz - The 700 MHZ Spectrum coming your way soon.
So is the Google Phone in my future using the 700mhz spectrum being bid upon by this auction?
