Online search company Google has admitted that it never wanted to become a wireless carrier, even though it had heavy involvement in the Federal Communications Commission's recent wireless spectrum auction.

Co-founder Larry Page said that was not the company's core business and while it was interested in expanding its mobile services business, it did not want to compete with existing telecommunications carriers.

This will be news to the FCC which changed its rules to encourage Google to bid in the recent spectrum auctions. The changes meant that the carrier that bought he spectrum had to open it up. Page said that Google wanted an independent 'band manager' to oversee continuous, dynamic purchases of spectrum.

This would be more efficient and profitable and allow users to hop online using whatever frequency promised the fastest connection. The government could make a fortune auctioning spectrum off by the second. X

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