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Comment Re:but can't stop a Telco from suing it.... (Score 1) 429

by monkini on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @09:17AM (#25037663) Attached to: City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website

A city sues a single person to prevent him/her from linking to a public website, but keeps silent when a Telco sues it for providing free internet... Guess cities are bullies like corporates. Pick on the small guy. I dearly, dearly hope the defendant not only prevails, but also countersues the City Mayor for Fraud, deliberate attempt to subvert justice, manslaughter (what the heck, file anyway), and personally report him to the FBI for corruption. Counter Attack is the best form of defence.

Sheboygan was sued by a Telco for providing free unternet? tell me more

FCC Puts 4.6 Billion Minimum Bid on Spectrum Auction 165

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @01:53PM from the you've-got-to-be-serious-about-this dept.

ChainedFei writes "Wired News notes that the Spectrum auction is moving forward, with the FCC placing a minimum bid for the C-block spectrum being offered at $4.6 billion. That, coincidentally, was the amount that Google fronted as a minimum bid to endorse certain open standards for the spectrum being sold. This is essentially a move to shut out smaller possible competitors while also maximizing the money the auction will generate for the grade-A areas of the spectrum. In addition, any single bidder wishing to purchase the entirety of the spectrum must front a minimum of $10 billion. 'According to the FCC, nearly all of that C block aggregate reserve price will go toward a package of U.S. national licenses. This portion of the spectrum also happens to be the one with two open access conditions attached to its sale mandating that all devices be allowed to access the band and that all applications can be able to run across the network. If the reserve price isn't met, the auction will be rerun without these two conditions in place, according to the FCC.'"

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