Google is lining up financing to bid on wireless spectrum in the Federal Communication Commission’s upcoming 700MHz auction, it has already built a small high-speed wireless network at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., to test out what it could do with the spectrum, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The Journal cited sources saying the company is planning on bidding in the auction, set to take place early next year. Google has obtained a test license from the FCC that it’s using to test technology on a small wireless network on its campus, the article said. And it’s supposedly using prototypes of handsets that use the company’s newly announced Android software.

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Posted: 11|17|07 at 11:02 am. Filed under: Auction News.