FCC to Google: You’re NOT the Boss of Me!
Google is NOT God, contrary to Jeff Jarvis’ assertion! In fact, a small posse of government bureaucrats today easily laid waste to Google’s wireless spectrum auction bravado originally designed to position Google as a “serious” player in the cellular market.
Google’s touchy-feely we’re the good $160 billion market cap corporation guys “openness” spiel may have taken in the tech blogosphere, but FCC Chairman Kevin Martin had his consumer priorities on the mark today in declaring:
The public interest is not what any one company wants.
Take that Google! Google nevertheless is spinning its showdown defeat as a partial victory:
The FCC embraced two of the openess conditions that we suggested several weeks ago: 1) open applications and 2) open devices.
Google’s “suggestion” to the FCC, however, was an ultimatum; Conditions required by Google for Google’s partiicpation in the auction!
Google’s demands for Google business-model centric “open services” and “open networks” were not “embraced” by the FCC, though.
Google talk is subsequently undoubetly cheap, even when it was talking about a $4.6 billion wager to dominate an ad-fueled wireless market.
As arch rivals AT&T & Verizon believe: Google can now put up, or shut up!
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