{"id":196816,"date":"2008-03-21T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/21\/verizon-big-winner-in-700-mhz-auctions\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T10:16:00","slug":"verizon-big-winner-in-700-mhz-auctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/21\/verizon-big-winner-in-700-mhz-auctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Big Winner in 700 Mhz Auctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120603843805652459.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">No Google<\/a>, though I think that the Goog was playing to lose, they just wanted to ensure open access on part of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The auctions were quite successful, with the exception of the &#8220;D Block&#8221;, the which was supposed to cover emergency first responders too, which is now under a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetmachine.com\/totsf\/item\/1117\">corruption investigation<\/a> as to whether Morgan OBrien and Cyren Call, who vetted the bids, were self dealing.  (The answer is pretty clearly, &#8220;yes&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Google, though I think that the Goog was playing to lose, they just wanted to ensure open access on part of the spectrum. The auctions were quite successful, with the exception of the &#8220;D Block&#8221;, the which was supposed to cover emergency first responders too, which is now under a corruption investigation as to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}