http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/ Engadget Comments for Update on the 700MHz auction: "C" block at $4.3 billion and rising http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://billkosloskymd.typepad.com/wirelessdoc/2008/01/controversy-ove.html

Scroll down to the link to Harold Feld's post.]]>Jan 30th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/I don't care if you conquer the world!!!]]>Jan 30th 2008 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/
Apple doesn't want to have a nationwide network, they want to make the handsets that are used on networks, they are a hardware manufacturer not a telco or a network opperator.

MS makes software for devices that can use this spectrum, they really shouldn't be interested in doing a nationwide rollout of a wireless netowork.]]>Jan 30th 2008 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/
As far as what I think I know, it means that carriers cant have it on lockdown, meaning any cell phone and cell phone OS, can work on any one elses service plan. is that right?]]>Jan 30th 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Jan 30th 2008 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/
Basically since the popularity of regular transmit analog tv is losing ground, the government wants to make a buck. So they are forcing TV to not use so much of the spectrum, by making them compress to DTV channels (which is better in the long run for us anyway). So then for us:

These frequencies are much lower than the freq cellphones are using right now. The lower the frequencies, basically, the easier they are to transmit over long distances. So if they are "open" frequencies, like the bluetooth and wifi frequencies, anybody and their mom can get a license (for MORE money) from the FCC and manufacture a device to use them.

SO expect to see something like "wifi everywhere", but of course it wouldn't be "wifi" 802.11 type frequencies at all. It would be in this new range.

It can get really complicated, there are LOTS of possibilities.]]>Jan 30th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/update-on-the-700mhz-auction-c-block-at-4-3-billion-and-risi/Feb 5th 2008 9:45PM