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Are we seeing the beginning of another lawsuit against Google in the making? Unlikely, but for the Government, or lets just say two Republican Representative and a Democrat, to say that Google deliberately manipulated the outcome of the FCC's recent 700MHz auction at a hearing today. They claimed that Google unfairly managed to obtain an open wireless network without having to win it, by promising to bid at least $4.6 billion on the 22MHz block if the winner was forced to allow open (third-party) access. Google has confiremed all that by what was written in the official Google Blog couple weeks back. "I suspect that if Google had been interested in more than just maneuvering within the system," said Stearns during the hearing, "it could have prevailed in the C block and become a new [wireless] entrant. I suppose we cannot blame them for trying to get free access to the spectrum; what is more concerning is, that even though we knew what they were doing, we let them maneuver this way anyway." According to Cliff Stearns and other blood sucking politicians, open-access rule may have deterred a number of companies from bidding, thus giving Google what they wanted and also that the Spectrum was worth $30 Billion instead of an income of $19.1 Billion

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