Google Phone?

Here’s a compelling analysis of why Google wants to buy the 700mhz spectrum in the US. Keywords: free, open. Two words that are not in the cell phone industry vocabulary. Watch out wireless carriers. You better start thinking about how to change your business models.

Once the company announces the wireless broadband to the nation, it will immediately announce that Google Phone everyone has been talking about. The Google Phone will work specifically with the Google system (kind of like Skype) and will be free of charge. The only fee to the consumer is the cost of buying the phone, which can be done over the Google checkout system from online retailers or at fine brick-and-mortar retailers nationwide.