NDP critisizes Google-Verizon deal
Earlier this week, Google shocked the tech community by signing a compromise deal with Verizon acknowledging that net neutrality rules should not apply to wireless networks.
Well, the issue has hit Parliament Hill in Canada where the New Democratic party has come out against this compromise. calling on the Canadian Radio-Television Communications Commission to "lay down clear rules to ensure equality of access to all information on the Internet for all Canadians," in a press release.
“We don’t support any side deals to carve up the wired and wireless world. Historically, Google has been a big ally in the fight to protect net neutrality,” said NDP Digital Issues Critic Charlie Angus in the release. “But this deal is the wrong deal at the wrong time in the history of the internet. We are calling on the CRTC to ensure fair access for all content in the digital world.”
Angus went on to say that the deal opens up too many loopholes that would allow "wireless and emerging services to be fast-tracked and prioritised to suit corporate interests."
