AT&T Prepares Legal Fight With Google Over Wireless Spectrum
Google announced last week that they were bidding on the 700MHz wireless spectrum. Their statement was filled with Googlespeak that is uncommon in the corporate world. Every sentence seemed to have passed through Google's own "do no evil" filter to check for compliance. Google was clearly appealing to its users, not its shareholders. That same strategy has helped Google grow to one of the biggest companies in the world, rewarding early shareholders with 5-fold performance.
AT&T is not happy about Google's bid. Google is trying to gain some control over the distribution of its massive amounts of information. Competitors like AT&T don't want Google to have any of that control. In addition, they want to charge Google more than the market rate for access to its information transmission systems.
AT&T will be appealing to the FCC in an attempt to block Google's bid. Without payments from big corporations like Google, dinosaurs like AT&T would have trouble surviving. You would think AT&T would be happy with that steal of a exclusivity agreement they made with Apple for the iPhone. I still think they drugged Steve Jobs before he signed the contract.
Google wants the 700MHz wireless spectrum, and it wants to open it up, demanding the FCC adhere to the four principles of open access. That's the way the wireless spectrum should be, and the fact that Google wants to play fair with consumers is the reason AT&T is so upset about Google's bid. AT&T is a company built around screwing the consumer. The government even agreed with that point when they ruled that the company needed to be split up because they had an unfair monopoly that was bad for consumers. Now AT&T wants to keep the wireless spectrum closed off to everyone but the top communications companies. Google has the money to get in the door, but Google wants to hold the door open for everyone else. They are the lottery winner that wants to invite the whole trailer park to the country club. That's great news for us (unless you own a communications company, you are part of the trailer park), but bad news for the elitist telecoms who would prefer to price gouge us for eternity.
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AT&T is not happy about Google's bid. Google is trying to gain some control over the distribution of its massive amounts of information. Competitors like AT&T don't want Google to have any of that control. In addition, they want to charge Google more than the market rate for access to its information transmission systems.
AT&T will be appealing to the FCC in an attempt to block Google's bid. Without payments from big corporations like Google, dinosaurs like AT&T would have trouble surviving. You would think AT&T would be happy with that steal of a exclusivity agreement they made with Apple for the iPhone. I still think they drugged Steve Jobs before he signed the contract.
Google wants the 700MHz wireless spectrum, and it wants to open it up, demanding the FCC adhere to the four principles of open access. That's the way the wireless spectrum should be, and the fact that Google wants to play fair with consumers is the reason AT&T is so upset about Google's bid. AT&T is a company built around screwing the consumer. The government even agreed with that point when they ruled that the company needed to be split up because they had an unfair monopoly that was bad for consumers. Now AT&T wants to keep the wireless spectrum closed off to everyone but the top communications companies. Google has the money to get in the door, but Google wants to hold the door open for everyone else. They are the lottery winner that wants to invite the whole trailer park to the country club. That's great news for us (unless you own a communications company, you are part of the trailer park), but bad news for the elitist telecoms who would prefer to price gouge us for eternity.
Google Fear Hits AT&T Square In The Jaw | WebProNews