Google Says It Will Bid for Wireless Spectrum
The New York Times
November 30, 2007
By The Associated Press
As Wall Street Journal predicted, Google will bid for wireless sprectrum.
The Federal Communications Commission is auctioning the 700-megahertz spectrum to increase bandwidth for mobile phone and Internet services.
Google covets the “C Block” of the spectrum — which carries a reserve price of $4.6 billion — because regulators stipulated that whoever operates it must allow their users to download any software application they want to a mobile device.
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