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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

  Filed under: Cellphones, WirelessJust in case you had any suspicion that Google may retract its 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

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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

  Filed under: Wireless Hot on the heels of the "white space device" test flop of 2007 (i.e., last week's news) Microsoft is regrouping and firing back at the FCC's findings, claiming that the initial prototype was "defective," but a new model works correctly. In an attempt to convince US regulators that use of the soon-to-be-abandoned 700MHz

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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

  Filed under: Cellphones, 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

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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

  Filed under: Networking Talk about wishful thinking. Ubiquiti -- a maker of wireless broadband gear we last saw breaking world records -- has announced 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

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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

  Filed under: Wireless It looks like 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

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