For the FCC’s upcoming auction for the 700MHz spectrum, Google has set aside $4.6 billion (the FCC’s reserve price) to bid on it. But - only if four “principles of openess” are met to give consumers a wider choice in broadband services. The openess will also increase healthy competition between providers.
The four principles Google wants the FCC to require are:

• Open applications: consumers should be able to download and utilize any software applications, content, or services they like;
• Open devices: consumers should be able to utilize their handheld communications device with whichever wireless network they prefer;
• Open services: third parties (resellers) should be able to acquire wireless services from a 700 MHz licensee on a wholesale basis, based on reasonably nondiscriminatory commercial terms; and
• Open networks: third parties (like ISPs) should be able to interconnect at any technically feasible point in a 700 MHz licensee’s wireless network.

Google lookin’ out for all of us peeps. Word. Press Release [Google]