In the quest to get more Americans online, the FCC is considering a plan that would require the winner of a new wireless frequency auction to give away wireless internet services for free to people who can’t afford it or are simply too cheap to buy their own internet access.

The FCC hasn’t thought the plan out completely at this point and ironically it shot down a proposal from a firm called M2Z Networks that was very similar. M2Z Networks proposed, according to The Wall Street Journal, that the FCC give it a national 25MHz chunk of wireless spectrum. In return for the grant of wireless spectrum M2Z offered to give the FCC 5% of its revenue for use of the airwaves and to provide free wireless internet service.

The main difference in the FCC’s stated plan is that the FCC wants to auction off the airwaves to the highest bidder with the stipulation that the winner must provide free service to Americans. The catch is that despite all of the money the FCC raised in the recent wireless spectrum auction, bidders showed their disapproval for the block of airwaves on auction that carried the stipulation that it must be shared with police and firefighters by not bidding on it.

The proposed rules on the auction by the FCC would stipulate that the winner of the auction would have to have its wireless network up and offer free internet access to 50% of the American population within four years and the service had to be offered to 95% of the population within ten years.

The FCC also proposes to block users of the free wireless internet access from viewing pornographic or obscene materials. Exactly how the FCC plans to determine what is obscene is unknown. After all, one man’s obscene is another man’s copy of GTA IV.

This isn't the first time no charge porn-free internet has been considered by the U.S. Government. A bill proposing free wireless Internet similar to what the FCC is now considering was reported in April 2008.