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Everybody is sworn to silence until the auction is by, so we won’t be seeing much more data about that until it’s all by in the spring of next year, but for now it’s still fun to speculate. Business Week is doing quite a bit of that speculating as well, with word that DoCoMo, KDDI, SK Telecom and even China (through the T-Mobile and Global Tower invested Blackstone Group) could be chipping in a few billion here and there to spice things up for Google and friends in the 700MHz C Block auction. DoCoMo, which got burned in the US a while back with pre-Cingular AT&T Wireless, mentioned to Business Week that it’d be interested in partnering with Google for its wireless network, and the other carrier might not be talking but have to be at least considering the possibility

of being involved in US wireless details in a big way, and KDDI has a history of being chummy with Google in Japan. The word is that average North American info service bills are less than $10 a month, and are expected to grow to $38+ a month by 2012 — and who wouldn’t want in on that action? As growth slows in Europe and Asia, it seems only natural for the innovators by there to head by here and kick things into gear, but we’ll try not too far ahead of ourselves.

[Via The Inquirer]

 

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