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Others disagree. "I think Google is going to go for it," says Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and net neutrality expert. "They are the Obama in this race. They don't have the advantages of the Bell culture, but they aren't trapped by it either." Google could benefit by controlling their own wires, which could potentially mean huge profits down the road and direct access to their customers - a safety net against any wireless carrier whims...
Regardless of who ultimately wins, the auction has already prompted a serious restructuring of the way wireless carriers offer services to their customers. In August, the FCC backed Google's crusade (spawned by a paper written by Tim Wu for the New America Foundation calling for open networks) and mandated that the auction's largest available spectrum, the C block, be an open network if the bid reached at least $4.6 billion. (Some analysts predict Google will bid just enough to trigger the open-network provision, and no more.) That would mean customers could use any wireless device, handset...
...Staff Writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu
Wu’s friends said that the incident did not reflect Wu’s normal behavior, and several said that Wu was intoxicated at the time...
...Wu, the outgoing treasurer of Mather’s House Committee, declined to comment for this story...