Media Alert: Verizon pushes corporate media deal

According to the national media policy group Free Press, Verizon has struck a sweetheart deal with a cartel of cable companies — including Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications — in which they’ve agreed to stop competing against one another.1 The new plan? To gouge consumers and divvy up the spoils of the broadband market.

Whether you use a mobile phone or a desktop computer to access the Internet, this deal is bad news. We need online communications to be affordable and open to all.

Take action to urge Congress to stand up for broadband competition, and to reject this deal outright.

The following video is a Free Press media policy person addressing Congress on why this Verizon proposal would be bad for the public.