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Originally Posted by Warrian  |
They were never trying to win. Read a bunch of the articles above. All they wanted was to bid the price higher than 4.6 billion or whatever, so that the network would remain open source for software. Google is a software company, not a hardware company.
I'll just quote what I did earlier:
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Google got the FCC to agree to a stipulation: if the slice of airwaves Google was bidding for (known as C-Block) reached $4.6 billion, the winner would have to keep it "open access." This would allow companies and individuals to "use any wireless device and download any mobile broadband application, with no restrictions" on this block of wireless space, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement at the beginning of the auction process earlier this year.
Now Google can operate on that system without having to own it. So, in other words, Google won by bidding the piece of airspace to that level, and then getting out of the bidding. Google declined to comment on the negotiations.
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I'm still kind of confused as to what this means though. Since verizon or whoever won the air space, yet anyone can use it, what was the point in buying it?
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