The plan “creates an Internet for the haves and an Internet for the have-nots,” said Andrew Jay Schwartzman, senior vice president and policy director at the Media Access Project, an advocacy group in Washington and a member, along with Google, of the Open Internet Coalition. “It may make some services unaffordable for consumers and access to those services unavailable to new start-ups.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/technology/10net.html?_r=2&th&emc=th

YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQlhutNNZG8&feature=player_embedded#!

Tiered Broadband:

“The idea behind the tiered broadband services claim was that the two companies would advocate for public access to the Internet, but that the content would be available at different speeds and different subscription rates…

The FCC is chartered to oversee "communications services," such as the public switched telephone network. However, the Internet was reclassified by the 1996 Telecommunications Act as an information service. As such, the court ruled that it remains outside the FCC's purview…

the public advocacy organization warns that ISPs could ignore net neutrality principles by creating a "two-tier Internet" with fast lanes and slow lanes. And that appears to be what Google and Verizon are proposing.”

http://gcn.com/Articles/2010/08/10/ECG-Google-and-Verizon-Push-Tiered-Broadband-Services.aspx?Page=1