Wireless Spectrum Auction

[daveman235]

So the bidding has stopped for the C block spectrum...I'm hoping for Google to win it.


Do you think google will win it? If not who ?
What do you guys think google will do with it?

 

[Abstract]

Give it away for free to all people who use Android?

Don't know, really. They could do so much.

But did they win it, though?

 

[CHAOS STEP]

So, (I don't really get this) you shut down Analogue Broadcasts, so that you can resell the bandwidth as Wireless Broadcasting or some such.

Excuse me if I have the wrong idea, but isn't that a bit iffy, since they (Government) will make Billions off the repackaging empty air?

 

[yg17]

So, (I don't really get this) you shut down Analogue Broadcasts, so that you can resell the bandwidth as Wireless Broadcasting or some such.

Excuse me if I have the wrong idea, but isn't that a bit iffy, since they (Government) will make Billions off the repackaging empty air?

yep, pretty much.

Selling air does sound wrong, but it's more than that. The FCC still needs to regulate who uses what block of spectrum, because if it was one giant free-for-all, it wouldn't work. Although almost 5 billion dollars is ridiculously high

 

[blairwillis]

They should have put this on eBay.