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Along with Internet companies, including Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc., public advocates have argued rules are needed to prevent broadband providers from favoring their own services or extracting money from companies for speedy delivery of Web traffic.
"It is conceivable under the agreement that a network provider could devote 90% of its broadband capacity to these priority services and 10% to the [regular] Internet," said Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge, a digital advocacy group.
Joel Kelsey, an adviser to media watchdog Free Press, said that "Google and Verizon can try all they want to disguise this deal as a reasonable path forward, but the simple fact is this framework…would transform the free and open Internet into a closed platform like cable."
Read more: Google, Verizon Release Internet Proposal - WSJ.com
"It is conceivable under the agreement that a network provider could devote 90% of its broadband capacity to these priority services and 10% to the [regular] Internet," said Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge, a digital advocacy group.
Joel Kelsey, an adviser to media watchdog Free Press, said that "Google and Verizon can try all they want to disguise this deal as a reasonable path forward, but the simple fact is this framework…would transform the free and open Internet into a closed platform like cable."
Read more: Google, Verizon Release Internet Proposal - WSJ.com
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