more goog

i feel like this is a good thing.


and i quote..

" Google in particular wants the spectrum to be used to create a wireless Internet that works much like the traditional Web. People would be able to use whatever devices or software they want, just as they can use a Mac, Windows- or Linux-based computer or something else to access the
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traditional Web, with a wide choice of browsers and other Internet software.

Google's executives, including co-founder Sergey Brin and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, have repeatedly said the country's closed wireless networks, in which the carriers maintain a lock on what devices and software customers can use, thwart innovation.

To try to change that, Google earlier this month unveiled an ambitious proposal to open up software development for mobile phones and, it hopes, spur a whole new wave of innovative applications.

In addition, Google lobbied hard over the summer with a coalition of public interest groups and technology companies to make sure the 700 megahertz spectrum up for auction would be used to create an open commercial network.

Google got half of what it wanted. In August, the FCC approved rules that require the winner of the auction to allow any device and any software application to run on the new network."