Google Wants 'Open' Wireless Networks

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Google and its allies may have lost key Capitol Hill votes on Net neutrality laws last year, but now they're mounting a counterattack: a lobbying effort to extend similar rules to forthcoming wireless broadband networks.

As part of a congressionally mandated switchover to digital television broadcasts, the federal government is preparing to auction off a generous chunk of the 700MHz broadcast TV band by early next year. Wireless companies are eager to bid on it because its signals can travel farther and easily penetrate walls--qualities that lend themselves to widespread, wireless broadband networks.

Google Wants 'Open' Wireless Networks [news.com.com]

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Ohh 700Mhz would be GREAT for wi-net, so great that it's just the type of thing that will get nixxed for some reason, I worry.