Dread Roberts - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Just wondering (Score 1) 285

by Dread Roberts on Thursday January 31, 2008 @10:18PM (#22256838) Attached to: Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic

Yeah, I'm so annoyed about that! How did you guess! I often find myself wishing Windows had some form of apt-get. If only we could get the source code for it somehow, I wouldn't be locked into Ubuntu anymore!

Spectrum Auction Could Be A Game of Chicken 193

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 31, 2008 @11:03AM from the who-will-blink-first dept.

Ardvark writes "Google promised some time ago to bid at least the reserve price for the C block of 700Mhz spectrum if the FCC accepted its demand for an open access rule for devices using the band, which the FCC did over Verizon's objections. If the reserve price is not met the rule will be dropped and the block re-auctioned. It appears now that bidding has stalled just short of the reserve price. It's assumed that Google has no interest in becoming a cell phone company and with a recession looming the 700MHz spectrum now seems worth a whole lot less. If Google's strategy was to force the bidding above the reserve but still lose the auction, Verizon could be calling their bluff, threatening them to live up to their word and buy what to Google could be the equivalent of a $4.6 billion 'doohickey.'" Update: 01/31 16:01 GMT by Z : And just like that, the plot thickens: the C block has hit the reserve price during bidding.

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