Hey google, way to go.
Google’s $4.6 billion plan for an open wireless Internet — machinist.salon.com
In an effort to improve our telecommunications industry, through openinig standards and bandwidth to services, opposed to keeping them in monopolies, google has just stepped up to the plate and dropped a 4.6 BILLION offer to bid on the 700mhz frequency range that the FCC is going to auction soon.
Would that all kings were so benevolent. Google announced today it would set aside at least $4.6 billion to purchase a slice of the public airwaves in an upcoming government auction of radio spectrum. The company is imposing one condition on its money: It will only participate, it says, if the Federal Communications Commission requires that all bidders for the radio waves be forced to adhere to principles of Internet “openness.”
If google can pull this off, it will be a major benefit to the end user, reducing the strangle hold that most of us exist in, unbeknowest even to our selves, thanks to the major tele-com companies such as the re-emergent AT&T and ubiquitous Verizon.