The five-member commission’s vote is considered to be a huge win for tech companies and public interest groups who say that white spaces could be tapped for use in under-served parts of the country. (One member of the commission, Republican Deborah Tate, dissented in part, raising concerns about signal interference).

Major TV broadcasters (ABC, NBC, CBS) oppose the plan, saying that their on-air signals could be disrupted by wireless service.

Richard Whitt, Google’s Washington telecom and media lawyer stated in the letter that “As Google has pointed out previously, the vast majority of viable spectrum in this country simply goes unused, or else is grossly underutilized. Unlike other natural resources, there is no benefit to allowing this spectrum to lie fallow.”

The company pressed on that the space available offers a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to provide ubiquitous wireless broadband access to all Americans,” wsj.com reports.

The report continues to say that TV broadcasters are not in favor to the use of white spaces because it may interfere with TV programming. This move is one of many efforts by Google to have an upper hand in the mobile market.

Whitt wrote “Google also would be willing to provide, at no cost to third parties, the technical support necessary to make these plans happen. This could include intellectual property and reference designs for underlying technologies, open geo-databases maintained by Google, and other supporting infrastructure. Of course we welcome other as well with an interest in helping to provide such support.”

Although the company claims to encourage competition, Whitt concluded by writing “Technological innovation, and the significant changes it brings, can be a scary prospect for some. But it should not be the government’s role to protect the status quo, especially by blocking access to the new.”