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Android is just the tip of the iceberg for Google’s wireless plans. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is lining up financing to spend some $4.6 billion to bid for U.S. wireless spectrum.

It has already begun testing an advanced wireless service at its Mountain View headquarters just in case it decides to run a “full-scale” national mobile carrier, WSJ reported, citing unnamed sources.

We’ll see if they’re serious by Dec. 3, the FCC deadline to submit an intent to bid.

A Google spokesman tells the Journal: “We are making all the necessary preparations to become an applicant to bid … Our goal is to make sure that American consumers have more choices in an open and competitive wireless world.”

Is this the end of the walled Internet approach erected by the carriers controlling the $95 billion U.S. wireless market?
(WSJ)

Keep an eye on:

• Blowtorch, a new movie venture brought to you by the producer of “Rushmore” and “Date Movie” and a digital ad executive, shoots for the college crowd and urges viewers to keep their cellphones on. (Reuters)
• U.S. weekly sales of Sony’s PlayStation 3 double after price cut. (Reuters)
• Amazon.com’s mythical e-book reader to debut on Monday at a “high-profile” event in New York. We’re wondering why it couldn’t look more like this.  (CNET) (Gizmodo)
• Time Warner, just days after agreeing to by TT Games, says it aims to go even deeper into video games. (MCV)