Report: White House aide says net-neutrality rule must address wireless, managed services

A White House aide reportedly told Time on Thursday that net-neutrality rules should address wireless and managed services.

Staunch net-neutrality advocates have charged this week that a net-neutrality policy proposal from Google and Verizon falls short in these two areas. The Time blog post does not clarify what the White House aide meant by "address." Verizon and Google do address managed services and wireless rules in their policy proposal — just not in a way that satisfies everyone. 

Here is what Time wrote: "[A] White House aide said that although the White House did not want to interfere with the deliberations of the [Federal Communications Commission], an independent agency, it was important that any final FCC rule address wireless and managed services, two of the issues raised by Google and Verizon."

A White House spokeswoman also explained to Time why the administration has not weighed in on the policy framework authored by Google and Verizon, designed to address a major item on the president's communications policy agenda, net neutrality. 

“The President supports an open Internet that drives innovation, investment, free speech and consumer choice,” White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage told Time. “We support the FCC's process to establish balanced, sound and enforceable rules in this area."