Will Google Bid On UK Radio Spectrum?

By Christopher Nickson
December 17, 2007

Search giant quiet on its possible moves.

It’s called the digital dividend, the part of the radio spectrum that will be freed up over the next few years as the UK moves from analogue to digital signals for television and radio. What the dividend is, really, is that amount that will be generated when government watchdog Ofcom auctions off that spectrum. According to a story on ZDNet, there’s speculation that Google might well put in a bid when the auctions happen next year and in 2009, as it’s planning to do in a similar auction in the US. However, a Google spokesperson was revealing nothing to ZDNET. "The federal [anti-collusion] laws that regulate the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] spectrum auction in the US prohibit us from commenting on our spectrum strategy anywhere else in the world. We are not allowed to say anything that would affect anyone else's bid." However, ...

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