A More Open Wireless World

Spectrum bid: Cone of silence is lifted and Google admits “top priority heading into the auction was to make sure that bidding on the so-called “C Block” reached the $4.6 billion reserve price that would trigger the important “open applications” and “open handsets” license conditions. In other-words, their bid was a bluff to “helped ensure that the C Block met the reserve price.”

This helped increase the revenues raised for the U.S. Treasury, while making sure that the openness conditions would be applied to the ultimate licensee.

Source Google Public Policy Blog