Google flirts with bid to save the American Dream

Will Google bid for a coveted portion of the U.S. wireless spectrum? "Probably" is the word from chief executive Eric Schmidt. On January 18, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will auction off the so-called "700-MHz band," a swath of wireless spectrum recently vacated by TV stations making the switch to digital …

[Francis Boyle]

The Progress and Freedom Foundation

just has to be a outfit dedidcated to world domination and the promotion of evil geniuses(tm) everywhere, right?

[Chris Coles]

Google should remember Nextwave from the last major spectrum auction

The last time the FCC auctioned off a large chunk of spectrum a company called Nextwave won the auction, but then found themselves thrust between a rock and a hard place by the FCC who set out to destroy Nextwave in a series of court actions that had nothing whatever to do with helping the winner to succeed. In the end, after a very prolonged battle Nextwave won in the courts but at the cost of having to abandon their long term plans to compete with the existing incumbants.

I have no reason to believe that the FCC have any notion of the long term damage their court actions against Nextwave did to the ruputation of the United States as a once free enterprise nation.

[amanfromMars]

The Progress and Freedom Foundation v2.0

just has to be a outfit dedidcated to world domination and the promotion of live geniuses(tm) everywhere, right?

White knights ...but not of Spamalot. These would be [necessarily proven] the Real Thing.