Google: Spectrum bid goal was openness, not winning

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Thu, 04/03/2008 - 5:51pm

Google says it participated in the recent wireless spectrum auction not with the goal to win, but to help drive bidding high enough to ensure that open-access rules it had pushed for would be adopted.

"Google's top priority heading into the auction was to make sure that bidding on ...


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