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  (Source: NJ Journal) Wireless carrier claims it still cares
about net neutrality  Verizon Communications, Inc. (VZ) has sued
the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for a second time
looking to block its proposed net neutrality rules.  But the
puzzling thing is that it's not clear what the pair is fighting
for.  Last August Google Inc. (GOOG) maker of the world's most
used smart phone operating system and most used search engine,
teamed up with Verizon Communications, Inc. (VZ), America's
largest wireless network, to unveil a net neutrality proposal.
 While the proposal aimed to block landline companies like
Comcast Corp. (COMCSA) from discriminating against data, it
contained exceptions for illegal data (e.g. P2P traffic) and
wireless traffic (which the proposal argued was too bandwidth
restricted to allow customers to freely access the internet).
The FCC, who Verizon and Google hoped would embrace those rules,
was dismissive of the propos