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an acceptable price range for consumers used to buying products such as Wi-Fi modems

may be built into other devices, such as Internet routers for consumers.

If Google does win and start a new wireless broadband network, it would put tremendous pressure on the leading wireless carriers to open their networks and play fair.

having lower so-called spectral efficiency

require smaller cells and lower power to reduce interference and increase the total data throughput not per cell but per square mile

Which makes one wonder: Why is a data-centric company like Google even interested?

simply bidding to make sure some of its open access requirements are imposed on an eventual winner, which will only happen under FCC rules if the bidding for that C Block goes to at least $4.6 billion

trade that block to Sprint/Nextel for some of that company’s 2.5-GHz WiMAX licenses

The thought of unused or underused spectrum got the juices flowing at companies including Intel, Microsoft and Philips, who banded together to propose that they be allowed to offer unlicensed data service in so-called “white space” within and between existing broadcast frequencies—piggybacking, as it were, on the bandwidth allocated to TV broadcasters and wireless providers.