Google is opening up the wireless industry

Google has just set one more step in motion to execute its broad plan of opening up the GLOBAL mobile industry. I guess some people just don’t understand what is happening but make no doubt about it, they have a solid plan.

Things started during the last frequency auction in the US where they laid some conditions for the auction. Google has laid the foundation of opening up the mobile industry. Why? It is key to their business model — make the airwaves open and free.

The plan of Google also includes it’s sizeable investment in Clearwire (WiMax). Remember all that fiber investment by Google. How about free wifi? These are all part of a well laid out plan. But these things take time. Laying out infrastructure, controlling and conditioning the market, creating the software and the hardware — they all take time.

In the meantime, Google has add one more step to the process — turn the mobile phone to the inevitable direction of being the computer. Take a look at Android on tablets, mobile phones, netbooks — the next step Chrome OS and the Google cloud. Nexus One is just the start, an initial device. Not an iPhone killer. The iPhone, closed as it is, is not the enemy here. If you look at what Google, Apple and Nokia have been doing these past years — buying Mapping companies, investing in Ad networks, analytic and related software, their own mobile platform … get the idea?

Five to ten years from now (that is if the world doesn’t end in 2012 – hahaha), we’ll have a totally IP-based mobile network, our mobile phones, mobile computer, connected phone or whatever it’s going to be called will be connected seamlessly and transparently via the “dumb pipes” around the world. Buying, billiing and of course browsing will be in our fingers — in a device we carry everywhere.