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It's official: Verizon is God.

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http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/fcc- ... g-winners/
FCC releases 700MHz auction details, Verizon, AT&T big winners

Posted Mar 20th 2008 3:08PM by Chris Ziegler
Filed under: Wireless

After yesterday's wrap-up of the gargantuan Auction 73 to offload the newly-freed 700MHz spectrum, it looks like the two champions to emerge are Verizon and AT&T. Big Red has emerged with virtually all of the highly coveted C Block save for Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Gulf of Mexico, a logical move considering its recent foray into the wide world of open access. AT&T, meanwhile, has scored much of the B Block, giving it 12MHz of spectrum in many of over 700 "cellular market areas" nationwide. In total, Verizon laid out a whopping $4,741,807,000 to pick up the Block C airwaves, leaving early competitor Google in the dust -- and affirming rumors that Mountain View wasn't in it to win it, it just wanted to make sure the reserve price was met and open access rules were assured.
The good news: the wires will be falling off of the internet really soon now. Even in remote areas.

The bad news: Verizon will control most of it. They have a history of crippling their phones.

Even though they are bound by the FCC to keep the spectrum "open access", it will be interesting to see how many loopholes they find.

I figured that Verizon would win this, considering the cash they have to throw around. They also had the most to lose from a truly open access spectrum controlled by Google.

At least Google succeeded in spooking them...
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