We have a new assault within the battle for the net “neutrality” (in this case the one between the operators and the content providers). This duel of giants began when the big operators threatened influence in the Internet to be able to discriminate between the contents. Now Google response is a bid in the next auction of frequencies at 700MHz in the United States. Google is wanted to turn a new operator of telecommunications? According to them not necessarily, they want to buy the frequency as long as an access can be done “opened”, following the Internet principles.

Google and the wireless networks

That Google courts the network, and particularly without cables, is not no newness: It already proposed in his day to put wifi in the streets of San Francisco with Earthlink, and indirectly through companies of risk capital are known investments in speculative operations that they persecute to privatize the free frequencies camouflaging as a citizen network.

Open Network?

But this time an important step forward occurs: This time they define generically what they mean by “opening” the spectrum: Unfortunately they aren't precise as writing something like the WCL, but at least this time they give some detail: Opened to the applications, to the devices, the suppliers of services and the networks. A step ahead because we cannot forget that if some of the investments that have been mentioned had been the successful as they had anticipated, many of these aspects of open network that now defend would disappear and would be into the hands of private monopolies… Seen the antecedents, we can trust Google as a guarantor of the neutrality?

In guifi.net already we are opening the frequencies without license

We have seen another assault, perhaps and surely not the last one, still have left to see interesting things, to reconvert frequencies licensed to “open” is really a newness. If we take an account on that after all as this is advance and gives the reason us in a thing, that in addition it is most important: The model of telecommunication networks which most contribute to the universal access, guarantees the best equality of opportunities between all its participants and to the economic development he is not other that the open networks, that is to say, the one that practices guifi.net. From here, we have to be all in alert, because much of this fight for the net neutrality has much of camouflaged for the power instead of really for the net neutrality.