Google CEO says mobile auction bid still probable

GOOGLE CEO SAYS MOBILE AUCTION BID STILL PROBABLE
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Diane Bartz]
Google is leaning toward bidding in upcoming U.S. mobile phone airwave auctions, despite a partial setback last month from Washington regulators, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday. Schmidt told a conference of regulatory and industry leaders in Aspen that his company would "probably" move ahead with plans to bid for wireless spectrum freed up once broadcast television networks switch to digital from analog in 2009. In his comments, he reiterated that the decade-old hands-off government policy toward the Internet -- such as no sales tax -- had allowed the Internet to grow exponentially. This means no government scrutiny of what is said on the Web, universal broadband access to speed up the Internet and "net neutrality," essentially an assurance that no government or single company will control what goes on the Internet. "If you have three or four choices, this is not going to be a problem," he said of the need to ensure multiple competitors are at play in communications markets.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN2140502020070822

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