September 10, 2007
Apple in the auction...?
Business Week has a story about a rumor that Apple might be looking at the wireless auction.
Burrows quotes me on what I think -- that it makes no sense -- but then speculates rather liberally on how Apple could make it happen. It's clearly false that they could build a network for less than a billion dollars; it would be more like $10 billion. Sprint's Wimax network, which doesn't even cover most of the US, will be at least $5 billion (their current budget number).
It is interesting how much excitement there seems to be in Silicon Valley, when just a few months ago it was hard to get many of these guys to say anything out loud about how important the open access proposals are.
Posted by amol at September 10, 2007 9:36 AM
