< Hey, Mq, we could buy the assets for $1 per company, build out GSM1x in the 800MHz spectrum, which would be half the cost of doing it in 2GHz and it would use the existing sites and backbones and bingo, instant 3G across Europe.>
Hmm, good idea Mq. But wouldn't it be fairer for the citizens to give the money back to Zomby? After all, the citizens have got jobs driving taxis, making hamburgers, stacking supermarket shelves and stuff for $10 an hour and they are used to doing that and paying taxes for their hospitals, schools, roads etc. They probably like doing that and wouldn't know what to do with $100 billion.
Zomby is going to do it tough if he has to get a job stacking supermarket shelves instead of swanking around in limousines, flying on Concorde and staying in the Ritz. He really needs that $100 billion to continue in the lifestyle to which he's become accustomed.
Then again, the citizens could invest $50 billion of the auction proceeds in our new GSM1x network and keep the profits for themselves and put the other $50 billion into hospitals, roads, schools, bankruptcy courts, police and stuff.
Why give it back to Zomby? He'll probably pour it into that hole where his business acumen is supposed to be.
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