Harold Feld thinks Google is serious in its bid for spectrum. Here’s what he thinks Google’s aim is:

Google wants to eliminate the entire wireless “phone” industry and replace it with the “mobile broadband” industry. In this world, people do not buy “mobile phone service” with the option to load all manner of various features for additional prices onto their phones. People buy a wireless service contract for a “dumb pipe” similar to what they buy (now) from cable and dsl companies.

Harold, who is a great explainer, talks about the effect of the new anonymous bidding rule on the spectrum auction.

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