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    • Wireless Auction: Google Playing Chess Ten Moves Ahead [view article]
      People who underestimate AT&T or Verizon's competitiveness or savvy need only talk to anyone who worked for MCI-WorldCom, or any of the other telecom roadkill the big guys left in their wake after the ten year foot-dragging and lobbying and, from a positive standpoint, reorganization and refocus, following the Telecom Act of 1996. People were predicting the demise of the legacy Bell companiesl as MCI grew like a weed. Then, as now, one should not underestimate - as Google certainly does not - the magnitude of what is involved in managing a worldwide telecommunications network. Enginneering. Regulation. Employees. I don't think AT&T or Verizon likely suspected - as this post implies - that a bunch of foosball playing experts in running a data center (Google) were interested in taking on that effort. This is a long war. That's how I would approach this business case simulation. Mar 21 10:52 AM
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