Marguerite Reardon writes about why Google will not take on AT&T, even if it bids and wins in the upcoming FCC auction.
As a logical argument, Reardon’s works if you assume the premises are true. But at least one implied premise is false. Verizon and AT&T are rivals, playing the same game with the same customer […]

The most spectacular thing about Google: it is a billion dollar company whose decisions almost always benefit itself AND consumers (Nash bargaining solution, anybody?)
The following is a quote from Blair Levin, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Company and former FCC official:

When you go to Best Buy to buy a TV, they don’t ask whether […]