Google Goes Grassroots in FCC Lobbying Push

Call it a digital land rush — a stampede along the broadcast spectrum, the invisible areas of the air where TV signals, phone calls, wireless Web access and emergency alert frequencies roam. Google has its sights on some potentially lucrative tracts of the spectrum, so it’s asking YouTube users to help sway the Federal Communications Commission. On Monday, Google launched FreetheAirWaves.com, a lobbying Web site detailing its position on “white spaces,” the areas on the broadcast spectrum between television channels that could provide ground for a superfast wireless Internet.