Google's $4.6 Billion Plan for an Open Wireless Internet

Salon explains Google's $4.6 billion plan for an open wireless Internet. The 700 MHz band is freeing up from TV going digital. The FCC will have an auction and the telecoms are salivating but they want to build more closed networks. Google, interested in the net wants openness (net neutrality). They've gotten the FCC to agree to some of it but not all. The telecoms argument is that agreeing to all would lower value and the FCC would get less at auction. Google just trumped that argument.