The secret squirrels have finally left their holes and have been able to now publically speak about the C-block auction where Google eventually lost out to Verizon. Because of the FCC’s anti-collusion rules that were in place while bidding and shortly thereafter, mum was the word among all participants.

Google met the minimum bid of $4.6 billion and then went on to exceed this bid. The idea was to force Verizon (or whomever eventually won the final bid) to adopt an openness policy in regard to wireless communication.

There are many who have stated that Google did not actually want control over the C-block, but rather, just wanted to bid high enough so that they would have open access to this block from the high bidder. This was a shrewd move confirmed by Google, who will also be bidding on the D-block spectrum later this year as well as roll out the first Google phone based up the open source Android system.

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