Recent world wide breaking news suggests that Google could be gearing up to provide free Broadband ‘android’ services in the not so distant future. Early indications have stated that Google is currently lobbying the United States FCC (Federal Communications Commission) in a bid to allow more personal devices to use the Internet and access so called ‘TV white space’ to transmit Broadband services.
Google’s Telecommunications counsel ‘Richard Whitt’ has coined the expression ‘Wi-Fi on Steroids’ or Wi-Fi 2.0, when referring to the respective technology that can potentially offer gigabits-per-second speeds. If successful with the bid, the U.S. could be using the proposed service as early as 2009 with Australians possibly being able to access a similar service by 2013 when our analogue TV broadcasts cease transmissions.
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