Google, Amazon, & Ebay Preparing To Bid on Wireless Spectrum?

Sarah Perez on April 24th, 2006

The federal government will soon put bandwidth on the auction block. Two major bandwidth ranges, currently valued at $10 - 15 billion, will be available. The first auction will be in June and will offer the 1710-1755 and 2110-2155 MHz frequency bands for sale. It’s said that Google, Amazon, and Ebay are preapring to bid on these bands. Recently, the Net Neutrality bill was defeated, which would have prevented ISPs from charging content providers (like Google) on a tiered scale based on bandwidth usage. So, who wants to bet Google is just building their own internet instead? I do!