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According to bloomberg article, Google was accused by republicans for manipulation of FCC rules.

According to Fred Upton, Google bid enough on the C wireless spectrum block to trigger open access rules, after which it walked away in victory.

“Google was successful in gaming the system,” Upton said. The rules were a “social engineering” experiment by the Federal Communications Commission that prevented the spectrum swath, known as the C-block, from raising billions of dollars more, he said.

Google bid $4.71 billion on the wireless C block – enough to trigger open access rules by FCC after which Verizon won the auction with $4.74 billion offer.

According to Google public policy blog: “Google’s 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.”

So yes, they’ve admitted it on the own blog. It makes sense though. If your goal is have an open access network, why pay for it when you can achieve the same results with some effort and no money? The “duped” part is more of a media spin since it’s a sharks game in Washington and if we use “duped” to describe Google’s moves then we can use “killed”, “buried” and ”
destroyed” to describe every day actions of American government towards the people.

Open Access.

With open access block any phone can be used on the network giving Google more advertising space. The new block is to be equipped with 3rd gen by Verizon, meaning that broadband cellular access is very close. Whether it’s paid or free is up to the Verizon, but Google ensured that Android powered phones will not have any obstacles operating on the network.