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To: ftth who wrote (37202)12/18/2010 7:05:21 AM
From: Charles Brown  Read Replies (1) of 46821
 
Right, thanks for the correction. M2Z was proposing the wireless public network using 25MHz of spectrum in the 2GHz band, while Frontline was proposing a wireless public safety network for a similar amount of spectrum (22 MHz in the D block) in the 700 MHz band.

I linked them in my mind since they were both trying to finesse spectrum under the "public good" argument and were angling for a political deal with the FCC. John Doerr was also backing both efforts and so I thought of it as a two-pronged attempt at trying to obtain spectrum "gratis" for Google's mobile advertising ambitions.

As I recall, both were based on a "quasi-freemium" model.

Neither succeeded of course, even with the financial and political influence brought to bear on the FCC and Congress. And that's the lesson here: the bar is too high for billionaires and nexus insiders like Reed Hundt to buy their way into the communications nexus.

Renaissance Radio is the way to do it.
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