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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Watchers fear Google compromise on 'net neutrality' AFP - Friday, August 6 Send IM Story Print Watchers fear Google compromise on 'net neutrality' Slideshow: Full Photo Coverage: Internet Portals & Search Engines SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - – Online freedom advocates feared on Thursday that Google is changing allegiance in the battle to stop Internet service providers from giving preferential treatment to those that pay. The concerns surfaced amid reports by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal that Google and Verizon are crafting a deal in which online traffic such as data-rich video from YouTube would move faster, for a fee. Such an arrangement would be a major blow to the campaign for "net neutrality" in which no content is given priority treatment online. "The New York Times is quite simply wrong," Google spokeswoman Mistique Cano said in an email response to an AFP inquiry. "We have not had any conversations with Verizon about paying for carriage of Google or YouTube traffic. We remain as committed as we always have been to an open Internet." Google has long championed net neutrality, which has also been a priority for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Talks with Verizon to establish tiered pricing for Internet data traffic would be seen as a reversal of position. Verizon issued a softer denial, hinting that it was collaborating with Google but that their intentions were honorable. "Our goal is an Internet policy framework that ensures openness and accountability, and incorporates specific FCC authority while maintaining investment and innovation," Verizon spokesman David Fish said in a blog post. "To suggest this is a business arrangement between our companies is entirely incorrect." Internet and telecom giants had been meeting with FCC officials regarding a net neutrality strategy. The FCC on Thursday called off further meetings, saying that while productive, the talks have "not generated a robust framework to preserve the openness and freedom of the Internet." "It is a huge issue, because at the end of the day there is only so much spectrum out there and it is only going to carry so much," said Internet analyst Michael Gartenberg, a partner at Altimeter Group. "It is a fuzzy situation, but it underscores the tensions that are going on." One of three proposals put forward by FCC chairman Julius Genachowski calls for broadband Internet service to be reclassified as a telecommunications service. That would force Internet service providers (ISPs) to adhere to the same strict fairness rules for consumer access as apply to telephone companies. "Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable," Genachowski said during a press conference after an FCC meeting on Thursday. In April, a US appeals court dealt a major setback to the FCC's efforts to force ISPs to treat all Web traffic equally. The court ruled in favor of broadband provider Comcast Corp. in a case seen as a test of the FCC's authority to enforce net neutrality. Net neutrality would prevent ISPs, for example, from blocking or slowing bandwidth-hogging Web traffic such as streaming video that put a strain on their networks or from charging different rates to users. The court ruled that the FCC had not been granted the legal authority by Congress to regulate the network management practices of ISPs. Nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog portrayed any compromise by Google on net neutrality as a betrayal. "Apparently Google redefines principles to suit the business need of the moment," said John Simpson, a consumer advocate with the group. "What Google and Verizon are trying to do is carve up the Internet behind closed doors for their own benefit." The Eastern chapter of the Writers Guild of America also came out against the purported collaboration between Google and Verizon, saying that paying for online speed would cripple the ability of small players to compete. The guild represents people who write, edit, or produce content for online television, film, or radio shows. A deal between Google and Verizon to pay for faster Internet routing would become a standard that other telecom giants would eagerly embrace, critics predicted. "The world's biggest media companies want to define how people will get content over the Internet," said Writers guild executive director Lowell Peterson. 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