Google's Policy Priorities, and the FCC Auction

Google's Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the closing keynote at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's (PFF) annual Aspen Summit last night, telling the assemblage that his company will "probably" bid in the 700 MHz spectrum auction in January. Even though the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) didn't adopt all of the open access conditions Google had been lobbying for, GigaOm reports that Schmidt said that the FCC's auction rules were "conducive" to the company's participation in the auction.

GigaOm also recapped some of Google's top policy priorities. According to Schmidt, the to-do list includes:

• Defending free speech
• Promoting universal broadband access
• Backing network neutrality principles
• Calling for government information transparency

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