AT&T, Comcast Rout Google, Microsoft in `Net Neutrality' Battle

From Bloomberg.com:

"When it comes to getting their way in Washington, Internet-era darlings Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. still have a lot to learn from the likes of AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp.

The telephone and cable-television companies are routing Google, Microsoft and other online-content providers in the fight over whether the carriers can impose fees on Web site owners in exchange for priority access to their high-speed networks.

The carriers won a 269-152 vote in the House of Representatives, and an 11-11 vote in the Senate Commerce Committee, rejecting the Web companies' bid for a ban on new fees. Google and other companies are still urging the full Senate to adopt the neutrality measure when sponsors try to revive it as early as September."

-Miguel