Wi-Fi On Steroids?

In a follow up to this morning’s post;

Google outlines proposal for “Wi-Fi on steroids”

“Google on Monday said it has a plan to have American consumers from Manhattan to rural North Dakota surfing the Web on handheld gadgets at gigabits-per-second speeds by the 2009 holiday season.”

Hoo-Ha! Yeah! Gigabits per second! That would sure tick somebody off…

I find it funny how it seems that Google usually makes two or three announcements within the same news piece. Here’s an example (from the same NewsBlog post);

“Google isn’t interested in becoming a wireless service provider or building a network of its own, Whitt said. It does, however, envision the white spaces as a “unique opportunity to provide ubiquitous wireless access for all Americans” and a prime spot for use of mobile handsets running its open-source Android platform. Google hopes to start rolling out Android devices, which are being developed in conjunction with a 34-company consortium, as soon as summer or fall of this year, Whitt said.”

Hey – they have timetables for more than one result…

A small sidebar – “Google’s renewed white-spaces push comes just days after the FCC ended an auction of the remaining portion of the 700MHz broadcast TV spectrum that’s being vacated for the digital switch next year.

Whitt said he couldn’t say the proposal had nothing to do with the auction results, but because of FCC rules, he isn’t able to comment further on Google’s involvement in the auction until the end of next week.”

If you hadn’t heard, Verizon won the biggie auction.