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Re: U.S. gets Google, we get Ottawa

mathewi — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:19:01 -0000

That's my fear as well, Rod -- that all they really want to do is get
a piece of the oligopoly, rather than blow it up or even destabilize
it.

Re: U.S. gets Google, we get Ottawa

Tom Purves — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:21:10 -0000

there's the catch, it would make sense if they also win the US spectrum. Would be pointless if they don't.

In the U.K., google has claimed they aren't interested in spectrum.

Re: U.S. gets Google, we get Ottawa

Rod Templeton — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:18:58 -0000

Unfortunately, I don't have a whole lot of confidence that companies like Shaw or MTS/All Stream are going to do a whole lot to bring lower prices into a market that's going to cost them a ton of money to get into.

Re: U.S. gets Google, we get Ottawa

mathewi — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:07:02 -0000

That's a great idea, Jake. I'm going to forward that to my friends
Larry and Sergey right now.

Re: U.S. gets Google, we get Ottawa

Jake — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:59:22 -0000

Why wouldn't Google be interested in bidding on the Canadian spectrum? Of course it's a smaller market, but I thought Google wanted to make the whole world better/profitable. And especially since Canada is cutting the incumbents out of the new spectrum auction, it seems like a nice proposition for Google (or any other newcomer).