.mobi Google patent could lower wireless costs

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A recent writeup by Ars Technica discusses a recent Google patent which would swap cellular contracts for "mini-auctions", potentially allowing a customer to use whichever wireless carrier was willing to provide wireless access at a lower cost. Innovation like this, Wimax, and extended Wifi should go a long ways towards increasing mobile web adoption in many countries where it still remains prohibitively expensive.

Full Article here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...swap-cellular-contracts-for-miniauctions.html

 

[Shane]

Well this is very interesting indeed. Lets hope it goes ahead and works out well.

 

[Sufyan]

Thanks for the heads up!