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Google's 700Mhz network?
Tim Green Dec 3 2007, 12:07pm
The speculation proved correct: Google will bid in the US’s 700 megahertz spectrum auction.
Google will take part in the process on January 24th without a partner from the mobile space. It’s expected the bidding will start at $4.6 billion, and that building out the network might cost up to $7.5 billion more. The spectrum is being freed up as part of the switch to digital television in February 2009.
If Google were to succeed, it would then become a bona fide mobile operator and have a network on which to market devices running its recently-announced Android open software stack.
This would chime with Google’s earlier comments that, whoever won the auction, should accommodate all types of phones and software.
