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After writing rules that all but guaranteed failure for the auction of the “D” block of the 700 MHz spectrum lotto, the FCC is now starting on its second attempt to reach spectral nirvana — as in getting money through auction while also getting someone, somehow, to build a public/private network whose prime beneficiary is public safety.

Watching people like Morgan O’Brien make sausage out of the first attempt has left a bad taste in the mouths of many who would…

Is Google worried that Verizon’s version of an “open network” isn’t quite what people think it will be? Techcrunch reports that Google is so worried that Verizon will find a loophole in the open network rules that it Google filed a petition with the FCC last week asking the FCC to preemptively enforce the rules on Verizon.

Under the 700 MHz rules, Verizon can block any device or application it deems to have a negative impact on the performance of its…

Harold Feld writes an analysis of the aftermath of the 700 MHz auctions in the United States. He says, in part:

Echostar was able to do an end run and acquire a national footprint — something previously denied to it in the AWS Auction in 2006. And, while AT&T and Verizon got most of the licenses, they had to pay through the nose to get them — rather than sopping them up dirt cheap as happened in the AWS auction (where…

And the winner is . . . the incumbent! It appears that Verizon and AT&T have won most of the licenses. Google came up with nothing. Read more at Harold Feld’s blog.

Don’t expect any kind of innovation from these guys. What a waste of time and money the 700 MHz auctions have been.

Things are heating up for the FCC’s plans to auction off the 700 MHz spectrum. Google indicated that it will bid a minimum of $4.6 billion for the C block but only if the FCC agrees to its four open access demands. Things are heating up for the FCC’s plans to auction off the 700 MHz spectrum. Google indicated that it will bid a minimum of $4.6 billion for the C block but only if the FCC agrees to its…