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MargaretRouse
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 Is Google going to become a wireless Internet provider?
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I read in USA Today that the FCC is going to auction off UHF airwaves. Has anyone heard anything about Google participating in the auction? Am I going to see some kind of adsense ad equivalent on my phone now? Is that the way things are headed?
ASKED: Aug 6, 2007  1:35 PM GMT
UPDATED: August 6, 2007  9:18:28 AM GMT
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MargaretRouse
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Brighthand.com covered this at the end of July. Ed Hardy, the Editor in Chief, wrote: "The company is doing so because it thinks that, in the U.S., the portion of the wireless spectrum for mobile phones and data is controlled by too small a group of companies, leaving consumers with very few service providers from which to choose. "

No doubt Google will try to find a way to make tons of money on this, and you can bet ads will be coming to your phone very soon.

See Ed's full article here: http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=13199
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What do you think the ads will look like? Will they look like AdSense and only be attached as text messages? Or am I going to have to listen to an ad when I pick up my voicemail messages? Or will I get video ads (like TV commercials) when I launch my phone’s browser?

MargaretRouse
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