The New York Times recently reported that Google and Verizon Wireless are looking to create pay tiers for Web sites on mobile phones. The two companies came out and issued flat denials to those claims.
“[NY Times] is wrong,” Google said on its public policy Twitter feed. “We’ve not had any convos with VZN [Verizon] about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed to an open Internet.”
“The NYT article… is mistaken,” David Fish, Verizon’s executive director of media relations, on the company’s public policy blog. “It fundamentally misunderstands our purpose. As we said in our earlier FCC filing, our goal is an Internet policy framework that ensures openness and accountability and incorporates specific FCC authority, while maintaining investment and innovation. To suggest this is a business arrangement between our companies is entirely incorrect.”
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