{"id":165,"date":"2007-09-14T06:58:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T11:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/verizon-turns-on-google-and-sues-over-700-mhz-bandwidth\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T11:58:13","slug":"verizon-turns-on-google-and-sues-over-700-mhz-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/09\/verizon-turns-on-google-and-sues-over-700-mhz-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon turns on Google and sues over 700 MHz Bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a stroke of stupidity and greed, Verizon Wireless has filed a lawsuit because of the open-access conditions that the FCC has placed on the 700MHz range.  Skype, Google, AT&amp;T, and a few other big companies successfully lobbied the FCC for the open-access conditions.  Google has put up the 4.6 Billion dollars that is the minimum bid for the 22 megahertz being offered.  The idea is to open this bandwidth up to <u>any<\/u> carrier and handset.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Personally I really like the idea of being able to use any [wireless phone] handset and even &#8216;move&#8217; it to another provided whenever I want to. I am hoping that Verizon will fail with this lawsuit and the open-access conditions will remain.  See my <a href=\"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/verizon-pulls-a-180-on-the-band-width-auction\/\" title=\"Verizon pulls a 180 on the Band Width Auction\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>iron wil<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1)  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcrnews.com\/\" title=\"RCR Wireless News Website\" target=\"_blank\">RCR Wireless News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcrnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070913\/FREE\/70913010\/1005\" title=\"Verizon Wireless sues over 700 MHz open-access conditions\" target=\"_blank\">Verizon Wireless sues over 700 MHz open-access conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stroke of stupidity and greed, Verizon Wireless has filed a lawsuit because of the open-access conditions that the FCC has placed on the 700MHz range. Skype, Google, AT&amp;T, and a few other big companies successfully lobbied the FCC for the open-access conditions. Google has put up the 4.6 Billion dollars that is the [&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":[201,172,183,192,206],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-google","tag-mobile-phones","tag-news","tag-open-source","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}