SigEx Telecom : FCC Spectrum Auction: What's Google on About?by Delia Cruceru

Google’s plans to change the rules for the 700MHz spectrum auction are very hard to be accepted by other companies that participate to this auction. If they are going to win the nation’s airwaves, Google wants open acces and wholesale resale, anf for that they will invest in the auction $4.6 billion. Google "requested that the Commission should extend to all CMRS-type spectrum licensees clearly delineated, explicitly enforceable, and unwavering obligations to provide (1) open applications, (2) open devices, (3) open wholesale services, and (4) open network access." Former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and former FCC commissioner Reed Hundt support Google’s bold ideas about the rules for the auction AT&T agrees with the open acces part, but they don’t accept the wholesale resale. Verizon instead is threatening that if this happens, they would take they’re money and leave the auction. The federal commission doesn’t afford that, the auction is estimated that it would bring $20 billion to $50 billion into the federal treasury. Specialists say that the open access will bring a competitive stimulus but the wholesale resale is anticompetitive and would dictate how companies must package their services, and that mobile carriers will unite in this battle against Google and they would spend whatever is takes to win the auction.

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by Delia Cruceru for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

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