[Politico] Google, Verizon working on Web deal

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Google and Verizon are crafting an agreement that would align one of the country’s largest wireline Internet providers with the world’s top Web company on the hot-button political issue of net neutrality.

A pact between Google and Verizon signals a possible new direction for how net neutrality will be handled by policymakers and industry players alike.

« What is good for Google and Verizon is not necessarily good for innovation and competition on the Internet,” said Andrew Jay Schwartzman, senior vice president of the Media Access Project.

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