Google denies planning UK 3G bid
Google has denied that it would be interesting in bidding on the UK's 3G spectrum should the communications watchdog Ofcom put it up for sale via auction.
Just last week Ofcom announced that it is considering opening the airwaves up for offers in a bid to promote 3G services as the 2G standards currently used by a number of communications providers are only able to support voice calls, text messaging and low-speed internet access.
"I can tell you definitively it's something we're not currently looking at," Adam Kovacevich, Google's manager of Global Communications and Public Affairs, told eWeek.
"We don't know where those stories started."
The comments come as the company is believed to be planning to make a bid for the US spectrum that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to put up for auction at the start of next year.
Google has called on the FCC to put restrictions on the deal including making the winner make the spectrum open to all legal devices than software rather than just striking a deal with the 
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