Google Wants National Wi-Fi free of charge

Nationwide WiFi for Free. Yes your ears are hearing rights and its not a figment of your imagination

Google is lobbying the FCC for some of the wireless spectrum that will be freed next year when television will cease analog transmission. Google’s plan? “Wi-Fi on steroids.” Late Friday, Google submitted a six-page letter to the FCC outlining processes and tests to avoid interference on the frequencies in question. Google also promised to reserve some frequencies not for wireless Internet and provide free tech support for people using their Wi-Fi. Presumably, this would dovetail well with Android-enabled handsets, due out later this year.
This year’s wireless spectrum auction sold license to frequencies formerly occupied by UHF transmissions (ultra high frequency) television channels 52 - 69. The ultra high and very high frequencies used by television channels 2 through to 51 will no longer be used after February 17, 2009. Google planned to deliver sometime in Q4 2009.
If Google succeeds in convincing the FCC to sign on, there will be some major concerns with free Google WiFi, and rightfully so. Aaron Wall points out that as an ISP, Google will have access to massive amounts of user data that they could use to influence SERPs. And if they did provide wireless for free, many people would probably be willing to part with this information in exchange for Internet access, which was probably costing them anywhere from $10 to $100 a month.
There are also some concerns over the wireless network itself: would connections be secure enough? Would they be fast enough to make it worth the while of heavy Internet users? Would anyone but the Extreme Internet users care if their connections were slower, but free?
Connection prices though are expected to drop significantly over the ment few years as competition hots up and the likely intervention of mobile phone companies adding to this would there be any need for free Wifi? When the possibility of a fast service comes at a low cost. Although this would bring prices crashing down much faster.
This also illistrates that the internet has some way to go before it is at full strength and businesses need to start getting there websites sorted out by a good Web Developer soon for this revolution.