All's fair in love and war—and politics and business. While greased politicians, like good minions, slam Google for meddling in the 700 MHz auction, Google's own associations show the company is getting better at playing these high-stakes games.
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Chalk one up for razor's-edge stategery cutting right to the quick of Verizon and AT&T.
A couple of weeks ago,
Google was quickly criticized after it didn't win the auction, and had to field accusations that the company lobbied so hard for open access requirements because of its Android mobile platform, which has yet to materialize. Whether that’s true is cause for additional speculation to follow, but Google rightly said the people won the auction. Open access means wireless providers can't dictate subscribers' every move.
Open access also means competition, which neither wireless giant has ever liked.
More recently, the news breaks that Google and Sprint, among others, are investing over $3 billion in wireless broadband startup Clearwire, headed up by Craig McCaw, formerly of McCaw Cellular Communications, a company acquired by AT&T in the 1990s. It's this type of development that lets you know Google is pretty serious about the wireless space.
Then Valleywag drops
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