With the FCC getting ready to auction off a huge slice of the public airwaves being freed up by the move to digital television, phone companies are getting ready to bid, but Google and several other Internet entities may enter the fray in a way that could greatly benefit the consumer. Farhad Manjoo's article explains how the history of telephony and the current scenario may affect all cell phone users in the future.

Google and eBay Fight the Phone Companies

Machinist.....July 25, 2007