1.0link57228<![CDATA[Google's Billion-Dollar Gambit Forces FCC's Hand on Open Access]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/googles-billiondollar-gam_b_57228.htmlI was encouraged on Wednesday when Google lined up behind a real notion of an open Internet -- taking a position that consumer advocates and public interest groups had long supported.
Now, the search giant is putting money -- in the amount of at least $4.6 billion - behind their pledge, agreeing to buy into a plan to bring real "open access" to America's wireless Internet.