Comments on: So Google Will Bid For Spectrum. Will It Play To Win?

By: Google’s New Fund Should Advance Its Goals, If It Has Them

Google’s New Fund Should Advance Its Goals, If It Has Them — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:01:19 +0000

[...] done well, even the money-losing companies will still advance Google’s goals, much like its aborted bid on the 700 MHz spectrum still led to open access for devices. [...]

By: Will Verizon Give in to Google on Mobile Search? - GigaOM

Will Verizon Give in to Google on Mobile Search? - GigaOM — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:35:27 +0000

[...] out there. I do find it hard to believe that Verizon would roll over on a deal with the company who caused it such angst during the 700 MHz auction, but perhaps the lure of mobile search dollars is too [...]

By: Google Claims Less is More on Click-Throughs - GigaOM

Google Claims Less is More on Click-Throughs - GigaOM — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:23:29 +0000

[...] into more enterprise applications, its hopes for monetizing YouTube, mobile phones — even its particpation in the 700MHz auction. Oh and how it’s still trying to avoid being [...]

By: 700MHz bids starts out at $1.24 billion — $3.36 billion to go for open-access « Techbrothers’s Weblog

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:35:21 +0000

[...] from Reuters via Engadget. They have enter started the Horse race. The Prize is nothing less than world domination. Will this be the beginning of a truly open access network that anyone with the know how can live [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:41:56 +0000

Or google could keep saying they're bidding the min....then totally slam the competition with a megabucks bid where they're going to actually win it. The Telecom's would never see it coming.

    --Michael

By: 700 MHz Auction Update - GigaOM

700 MHz Auction Update - GigaOM — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:03:35 +0000

[...] So Google Will Bid for Spectrum, Will It Play to Win? [...]

By: Frontline Out of 700 MHz Auction - GigaOM

Frontline Out of 700 MHz Auction - GigaOM — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:25:08 +0000

[...] Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 4:51 PM PT Comments (0) Frontline Wireless is apparently out of the 700 MHz auction, according to reports from RCR Wireless and the New York Times, as well as an email note from our [...]

By: Paul Allen, Long-Time Wireless Fan - GigaOM

Paul Allen, Long-Time Wireless Fan - GigaOM — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:35:05 +0000

[...] companies to purchase access to wireless subscribers. Google is throwing its hat in, though perhaps that’s just to shake up the auction and not really make any purchases. Like Google, Allen could just be testing the waters and again not make a serious play for [...]

By: Tim Meyer

Tim Meyer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:52:34 +0000

Winning or losing is a matter of who has the better game theorists.

By: yit

yit — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:39:08 +0000

Google is always a winner, and they only bid on the important stuff, so if they want something its theirs, nothing to do about it.