Google tried to derail talk that it has "sold out" on the idea of insuring all data is treated equally when it comes to routing traffic on the Internet.
Critics claim the Google-Verizon plan would create two separate, unequal sections of the Internet--a high speed and exclusive fast lane for big business, and a slow lane, the 'public Internet' that would be available to the rest of the people.
A legal framework for "net neutrality" proposed this week by Google and US telecom titan Verizon has given rise to "myths" challenging the Internet firm's devotion to the cause,
But Google media counsel Richard Whitt said the proposal would not exempt wireless Internet connections from rules of fairness regarding handling of digital information.
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"We decided to partner with a major broadband provider on the best policy solution we could devise together," Whitt said.
"We're not saying this solution is perfect, but we believe that a proposal that locks in key enforceable protections for consumers is preferable to no protection at all."
Efforts to figure out how US regulators should or could keep Internet service providers (ISPs) from giving preferential treatment to some data at the expense of other bytes of information have been fruitless.
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 decided that the FCC had not been granted the legal authority by Congress to regulate the network management practices of ISPs.
"We're not so presumptuous to think that any two businesses could, or should, decide the future of this issue,' Whitt said.
"We're simply trying to offer a proposal to help resolve a debate which has largely stagnated after five years."
