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Google's Android operating system powers more than eighty percent of the world's smartphones and now the tech giant will start offering a wireless service Google's new project by seamlessly switches you between cellular and Wi-Fi signals depending on what's fastest and available Google hasn't necessarily announced which Wi-Fi hotspot since using for its partnerships and Google's promising to encrypt the files so that you should feel a little bit more free and comfortable using it Google isn't building its own wireless network but instead partnering with Sprint and t-mobile to use their networks if you're in an area that would maybe be like a dead zone instead of you scrambling to try to find some other way to stay connected and that may or may not be secure Google's promising to do all of this for you project files no contract pricing plan could change the way other carriers operate there's a twenty-dollar basic fee for calls texts and Wi-Fi tethering you pay ten dollars per gigabyte for data in advance and at the end of each month you'll get your unused data credited back to you so you only pay for what you use if this takes off what we're going to see is sort of an undercutting of the carriers carriers could start offering the same kind of prorated model which would be even better for the consumer initially the service will only be available on Google's Nexus 6 smartphone in San Francisco Vanessa hand Ariana cnet.com for CBS News