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Administrative/Regulatory

Sep. 8, 2010

Verizon-Google's Proposal to Limit Net Neutrality Will Hurt Consumers

Consumers will be cheated if Google-Verizon's proposal to block access to certain Internet content is approved, by John F. Stephens and Kanika D. Corley of Sedgwick.

John F. Stephens

Goldberg Segalla LLP

Email: jstephens@goldbergsegalla.com

Kanika D. Corley

commercial litigation, entertainment law, intellectual property, Akerman LLP

Phone: (213) 688-9500

Fax: (213) 599-2677

Email: kanika.corley@akerman.com

University of San Diego School of Law

Nearly one month ago, Verizon and Google proposed to the Federal Communications Commission a most controversial regulatory scheme that would change the face of "net neutrality" as we know it. On Aug. 9, 2010, the companies jointly and publicly proposed that the principle of net neutrality should remain for certain parts of the Internet, but not all. The companies' joint proposal outlines a legislative framework that would carve out an exception from the principle of net neutrality all wi...

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