@Paris: No no. The minimum bid for the spectrum to be "open-access" - usable by any company for a fee (like how Verizon has to lease other phone companies its lines) is $4.7 Bln: that is the total minimum bid set by the gov't for the C and D blocks of the 700Mhz (C and D are the only blocks used for two way communication - very valuable).
Technically you could get the C and D blocks for less than the minimum bid and have closed-access, but that won't happen. The bid is already up to $2.78 Bln since this blog entry was written, and is expected to reach nearly $10 Bln, so I don't think there are any worries that the C and D blocks will be closed-access.
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@Paris: No no. The minimum bid for the spectrum to be "open-access" - usable by any company for a fee (like how Verizon has to lease other phone companies its lines) is $4.7 Bln: that is the total minimum bid set by the gov't for the C and D blocks of the 700Mhz (C and D are the only blocks used for two way communication - very valuable).
Technically you could get the C and D blocks for less than the minimum bid and have closed-access, but that won't happen. The bid is already up to $2.78 Bln since this blog entry was written, and is expected to reach nearly $10 Bln, so I don't think there are any worries that the C and D blocks will be closed-access.
RTFA ;)