{"id":100,"date":"2007-07-26T06:02:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T11:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/verizon-pulls-a-180-on-the-band-width-auction\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T06:02:04","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T11:02:04","slug":"verizon-pulls-a-180-on-the-band-width-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/07\/verizon-pulls-a-180-on-the-band-width-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon pulls a 180 on the Band Width Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon Wireless has turned around and started to move towards Google&#8217;s stand on the 700mhz band.  They are making some noise about what is allowed and what is acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rick Whitt, a Google lawyer based in Washington, described Verizon&#8217;s proposal as &#8220;a promising half-step forward for consumers,&#8221; but he said it doesn&#8217;t go far enough to guarantee consumers can &#8220;download applications and use devices on any network.&#8221; (1)<\/p>\n<p>for the article in the Wall Street Journal click <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118539299910877798.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" title=\"Verizon Wireless Offers Google Olive Branch in FCC Auction\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>iron wil<\/p>\n<p>(1) Wall Street Journal Article, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118539299910877798.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" title=\"Verizon Wireless Offers Google Olive Branch in FCC Auction\" target=\"_blank\">Verizon Wireless Offers Google Olive Branch in FCC Auction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon Wireless has turned around and started to move towards Google&#8217;s stand on the 700mhz band. They are making some noise about what is allowed and what is acceptable. &#8220;Rick Whitt, a Google lawyer based in Washington, described Verizon&#8217;s proposal as &#8220;a promising half-step forward for consumers,&#8221; but he said it doesn&#8217;t go far enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,201,172,183],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-article","tag-google","tag-mobile-phones","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}