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- guardianzero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+80I hope Google gets it.
I also hope Google doesn't become "evil." - acidone, on 10/10/2007, -5/+49Kill them all. Let Google sort it out.
Viva la Google! - Typhoon2009, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26Google will have to ramp up how much they put in the FCC's pockets or just call it quits.
Don't you love the American government? - pitdingo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Seriously, Google could offer $10000 trillion googplex dollars and still not get this. The telcos have the FCC wrapped around their fingers. Look at all the illegal wiretaps AT&T did for the government and all the money they bribe, sorry lobby, politicans with. The FCC will never let Google get this.
I for one, look forward to falling further behind the rest of the world in telecommunications, paying much higher prices for crappy tech, paying much higher prices for lower connection speeds, and paying more for crappy service. - drjekelmrhyde, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16From the Washington post
"Google also frequently invites prominent politicians to tour its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. But its 2006 congressional lobbying budget of about $770,000, according to public disclosures, is dwarfed by the $21 million spent by AT&T and $14.4 million spent by Verizon the same year." - JupiterLander, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14unfortunately I predict google will not get the spectrum because the major telcos will lobby like gangbusters. seriously how is it not bribery when major telcos pay off our government officials to vote the way they want.
- JayD16, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Little do we know, google's servers are fast because of the excessive use of orphan blood.
- tonyt11, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10This is awesome! If google gets this, they'll ensure that we keep network neutrality! There's no way the old telcoms will censor/control network traffic if the competition (ala google) is free and open :-)
- Unclickable, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Google releases educational videos about 700MHz
http://yuxt.com/geek/700MHz - team-6, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Remember this is an auction, whom has has the most $$ wins, its not a matter of lobbying in this case. Now lobbying will be part of google's recommendations being adopted.
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Google is going to have to get Microsoft and Yahoo to form it's own lobby mafia to go up against them hey thats what Cablcos have
- mishaco, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7GO GOOGLE GO !
BEAT AT&T ! - geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5...Digg apparently can't handle scientific notation either. I'm really starting to loath commenting here, comment mangling and murdering should be against the law.
- gr3yn3t, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5he was. it didn't work.
- mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Does google have the ability to operate this company?
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4We can use the advanced search to sort out all the pieces.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Please tell me your trying to be funny.....
- moocow1452, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Lobbying is glorified bribing. Just Google is using it's superpowers for good, not evil.
- directorblue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The long-term goal of the FCC should not be tied solely to the short-term returns associated with the auction. There is a concept called return-on-investment (or ROI). The auction should produce the maximum ROI to the US Government (i.e., the American taxpayer) over the life of the spectrum. I know that's a really difficult concept for the FCC and the telcos to grasp. Maximizing ROI for the auction would mean preventing the telcos and its sock-puppets -- who are already longtime beneficiaries of taxpayer largesse -- from bidding to force new lifeblood into the competitive landscape. My net neutrality index (for more discussion of these topics) is here: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2006/06/net-neutrality-index-herein-one-may.html
- dan8302, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6I encourage you all to go to this site (http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/martin/mail.html) and send Chairman Martin a email and tell him to keep the spectrum open.
This is what I sent him:
Chairman Martin, I would like to just send you a note about the upcoming auction of the 700 MHZ spectrum. Please Please Please auction off the spectrum so that it can be used to the fullest extent, and not pigeon holed into something that doesn't live up to public expectation. What some people, and by this I mean Google mostly, are proposing is a wireless broadband that could be distributed like television is now. The Internet is, well I can't find one or even a few words to describe it. What I can tell you is that it will be the lifeblood of this century and allowing anyone, anywhere at anytime to access the Internet for free would be the equivalent of a new industrial revolution. The way people live, work, play, communicate and experience life would change inexorably. Please let that happen, as a person, a cell phone and active computer user, a Republican and someone who can see the potential of this technology. Please let the people have it, and not a corporation.
Thank you for your time and consideration. - jleems86, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4if not, they certainly have enough brainpower to quickly develop one
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2as much as it's good that google is the consumers' rights crusader, the article is an extreme dupe of all the stuff on this topic that's been submitted from arstechnica... over... and over... and over again.
- aserer511, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2what kinda bandwith can you get on 700mhz?
- echinatl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2They have the money to do this. Can you imagine a powerful, extremely well funded lobby group that is doing good things? I'm tried to imagine it right now and my head nearly exploded.
- kleinishere, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Sorry if I have missed this somewhere, but when does the auction occur? Have they set out a date yet?
- bigrodey77, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You know, I don't leave many comments or what not, but I do think that is one of the better interviews I have read on the web. I hope Google gets everything they want. And I hope that I get ubiquitous Internet service. Definitely check this one out.
- geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem
It depends on the bandwidth (literally, how much of the spectrum is directly allocated, measured in Hz) and the signal-to-noise ratio. Setting S/N to 1, you get the theoretical maximum of the channel based on the Nyquist limit (C = 2B). - nickstr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2about 106 MHz each NTSC-M TV channel takes up 6 MHz and there is 9 channels
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- adub666, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's an interesting position. We want you to make it open and free, therefore less valuable to the big telcos. If you do this, they probably won't be as interested, but we'll buy it and operate it if they aren't interested...
Definitely some altruism in there. Also good to see that they're fighting the good fight. The internet was the success that it was because bandwidth was a commodity. These telcos want to blur the lines between bandwidth and application... - GfunkGbuss, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I work (will be leaving to head off to college in 2 weeks) at a local Teleom provider, and I know there are some government cases that some of the technicians have to work with, but anyone outside of the Central Office technicians and the CEO will get a "If we told you we'd have to kill you" explanation if you ask questions. I've witnessed some of this corruption first hand.
- rinaus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I hope the auction can bring some benefits for end users as Google said!
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http://projector.vrid.net - Dannyb2b, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Um dude, I think we all know that politicians are notoriuosly short sighted and incompetent and whoever pays more now will definetely have an advantage. The whole system is structured that way.
- JimmyRyan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Yeah, but if I am one of those politicians I am thinking about the money I can get AFTER one of them win. AT&T gives them alot now, but who is going to be more profitable to them later?
- Nodaki, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Nice satire...if you are digging him down you just don't get it.
- Egg333, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Very well put but does stating that you're republican really relevant to your argument?
- chriskey, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2i liked it
- directorblue, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The long-term goal of the FCC should not be tied solely to the short-term returns associated with the auction. There is a concept called ROI. The auction should produce the maximum ROI to the US Government (i.e., the American taxpayer) over the life of the spectrum.
I know that's a really difficult concept for the FCC and the telcos to grasp.
Maximizing ROI for the auction would mean preventing the telcos and its sock-puppets -- who are already longtime beneficiaries of taxpayer largesse -- from bidding to force new lifeblood into the competitive landscape.
My net neutrality index (for more discussion of these topics) is here: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2006/06/net-neutrality-index-herein-one-may.html - SunAlex, on 09/01/2008, -0/+0say Yes Google. Google go.
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http://search.ashtech.info/tech%20news - Coded1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1***** man, listen to yourself, you want to exchange 3 mega corps (1 unquestionably evil) for the evil ones we have now? WTF?
- beatbox360, on 10/10/2007, -13/+11Go AT&T, they's my phone company. Who ever heard of a damn googen, or whatever y'all said. Internet is too spensive anyways. Yeah for USA!!! These colors don't run. Amerika is #1. We is all geniuses in the bestest darn country on God's green earth.
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/10/2007, -16/+2I LOL silly people dont you know the Telcos lobby groups out spend Google like 100 to 1to the FCC the FCC will vote for a little changes but not everything Google asking
/// to Google put them millions where your mouth is or shut the fvck up
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