Robert X. Cringely has an intriguing column this week about Google's possible plans for the 700MHz spectrum band that the FCC will soon auctioning off.
Most of the auction press, including here on Epicenter, has concerned Google's attempts to encourage the FCC to mandate that the auction winner allow some form of open access, and Verizon's fuss when the rules moved slightly in Google's favor.
But what Google would do with the spectrum if it wins? Cringely's guess: use infrastructure the company already owns to build a massive wireless mesh network that makes wifi vastly more available, and vastly better. If this happens, Google could become the country's biggest ISP and it would have a marvelous tool for a new wifi-enabled Google phone.
