By Peter Kaplan 1 hour, 11 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) and AT&T (T.N) were big winners in the U.S. government's auction of wireless licenses that raised a record $19.59 billion, the Federal Communication Commission said on Thursday.Verizon Wireless, a joint venture with Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L), won the nationwide "C" block of the auction, giving it control of a major piece of the airwaves being vacated by television broadcasters as they move to digital signals in early 2009.
AT&T (T.N) won 227 licenses from among the "B" block of regional licenses, but Internet leader Google Inc (GOOG.O), while it submitted a serious bid for the C block, in the end won no licenses, the FCC said.
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