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Is Google on crack?

Posted by mwelch August 1, 2007 03:58 PM

Source: I, Cringely

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Robert X. Cringely from PBS thinks that Google doesn't "know who they are messing with" when they bid "$4.6 billion in the FCC's auction of bandwidth in the 700-MHz band being reclaimed in 2009 from analog television." Google wants to buy the right to break the spectrum wide open and make a true mobile Internet. A noble cause. But first, they have to go up against the "reptilian craftiness" of the big telcos, who want absolutely nothing to do with openness. The final price will go well over the $4.6 billion. Is Google drunk on their own Kool-Aid or are they playing a game of poker? Are they ready to bet the farm?

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070727_002573.html

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