GigOm says Web Giants are angling for 700 MHz spectrum:
’Network-less’ content aggregators (Yahoo, Google) and online transaction companies (EBay) have been concerned about potential last mile toll for the customer to access their services,” writes UBS Global media Strategist Matt Coppet in a note to the UBS clients this morning. “for the coalition providers, the only way to protect their unencumbered access to the consumer could be to build a third data own network.”
Google, Yahoo, and eBay may not see eye to eye with each other, but when it comes to broadband access, they all agree that the future is too much in control of the incumbents who can squeeze them dry.
It is one of the reasons the three heavyweights, plus Intel, have teamed up with satellite carriers EchoStar and DirecTV to lobby the FCC about how the 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction is held, according to a research note published by UBS Research this morning.
In other news, Google’s Next Super-Secret Project” may be a Google phone, similar to Apple’s iPhone, says Blogger and VC Simeon Simeonov.
EE Times reviews Google’s plans to buy up dark fiber to route around hostile cable and telephone companies; collaborate with Wyse Technology to make a thin-client PC; place data centers in shipping containers around the country; and fabricate its own processors.
Simeonov identifies Andy Rubin, founder of Danger, Inc. and Android, a 2005 Google acquisition, as the leader of a 100-person team working on a Google phone.“Apparently, Google is planning to build distribution relationships with multiple carriers by allowing them to minimize subscription and marketing costs,” says Simeonov in a blog post. “In other words, Google will market the phone online and carriers will fulfill.” The Blackberry-like device is said to have “many services, including VoIP” that runs a C++ core in conjunction with Java and possibly Linux and includes vector-based presentation similar to what Google acquired when it bought Skia.
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