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It's a bit frightening to think how LARGE Google has grown, and quickly they've done it, in their very short corporate lifetime, and this (spectrum) would give them an enormous club with which to pound some competitive spirit (read: open-network/unlocked-devices) into the likes of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, et al. Judging from recent comments from the major carriers, they're already moving that way, so this should (i hope) be a nice kick in the pants, even if Google doesn't win the auction.

One question is, what will Google do with this spectrum if they get it? I really *really* doubt they want to build their own infrastructure out, given that low-margin cutthroat business, so maybe they'd partner with some hungry wireless telecom to do the grunt-work (build towers, etc), while Google provides the Great Googley Network/Software experience? ]]>Dec 1st 2007 1:56AM