http://www.mediazulu.com/node/129 Comments for "Rope-a-dope" en http://www.mediazulu.com/node/129 <p>Breaking news: Verizon (VZ) tops the bidding for coveted 'C-block' 700Mhz spectrum, bidding a reported total $9.63 billion for regional licenses that cover the whole 48 continental states. </p> <p>Google (GOOG) won nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. And won anyway, by virtue of the open-access provisions they demanded as a precondition before they bid. These provisions (anybody want to bet me a quarter that Verizon's legal team is even now crafting a challenge to them?) putatively guarantee all comers more-or-less equal access to the desirable WiMax-friendly frequency block, freed up as of early 2009 when those old useless UHF channels on your broadcast tuner go dark.</p> <p>Oh. The other winner? You. The US Treasury nets about $19.5 billion - almost double the originally estimated take.</p> http://www.mediazulu.com/node/129#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:16:03 -0400 Larry Honig 129 at http://www.mediazulu.com