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• Google 'still very interested' in 700MHz spectrum auction

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:11 pm

  Tags: 700mhz, 700mhz Spectrum, 700mhzspectrum, Business, Fcc, Google, Spectrum, Spectrum Auction, Spectrumauction

  interest in bidding for the 700MHz spectrum after the rules neglected to afford the winner wholesaling rights, Chris Sacca has intervened to clear things up. According to the search giant's head of special initiatives, the firm is "still very interested in the auction" despite not getting all of the rules for the spectrum sale set in its favor.

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• Microsoft to dispute FCC findings on 'white space' device

  Published: August 13, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: 700mhz, 700mhz Spectrum, 700mhzspectrum, Fcc, Google, Intel, Microsoft, White Space, White Space Coalition, Whitespace, Whitespacecoalition

  of the soon-to-be-abandoned 700MHz spectrum is "safe" for wireless internet services, Microsoft (along with White Space Coalition cohorts such as Google and Intel) is claiming that the technology is sound and can work side by side with its broadcast television neighbors -- and they have proof. As you'll recall, the first round of tests

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• Google still likely to bid in 700MHz spectrum auction

  Published: August 22, 2007, 10:41 am

  Tags: 700mhz, 700mhz Spectrum, 700mhzspectrum, Auction, Bid, Ceo, Google, Spectrum, Spectrum Auction, Spectrumauction

  WirelessWe know, the 700MHz soap opera is wearing a bit on us too, but just in case you were worried that the latest FCC shakeups would deter Google from coughing up $4.6+ billion when the time was right, fret not. Reportedly, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt "told a conference of regulatory and industry leaders in Aspen that his company

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• Ubiquiti creates the first commercial 700MHz WiFi card

  Published: October 10, 2007, 11:27 am

  Tags: 700mhz, 700mhz Spectrum, 700mhzspectrum, Broadband, Ubiquiti, Wifi Card, Wificard, Wimax

  the "world's first" 700MHz WiFi card, clearly hoping to get a head start on the feeding frenzy we all expect. The XR7, as it's called, is a compact radio module, which is built for the mini-PCI Type IIIA standard, has scalable channel bandwidths of 5 / 10 / 20 and 40 MHz, and 256-bit AES security. The company claims that the card can be

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• Google calls for FCC to force open access rules or block Verizon's 700MHz bid

  Published: May 5, 2008, 6:37 pm

  Tags: 700mhz, 700mhz Auction, 700mhz Spectrum, 700mhzauction, 700mhzspectrum, Auction, C Block, Cblock, Fcc, Google, Open Access, Open Access Rules, Openaccess, Openaccessrules, Petition, Verizon

  Verizon isn't taking those 700MHz spectrum open access rules very seriously, and a certain competing bidder isn't real happy. In a petition filed with the FCC by Google, the company alleges that Verizon is willfully ignoring the "plain meaning of the [open access] rule" by suggesting it will allow one type of access for users who use

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