Google has defended its pact with Verizon and claims that it is not selling out the principal of net neutrality. It says it maintains the idea that ISP’s should not be allowed to pick and choose what speed to give traffic depending on its contents.

Google said “No other company is working as tirelessly [as Google] for an open Internet” in a company statement.

The problem remains that it’s unclear whether the Google-Verizon proposal really would protect users. Wireless networks are omitted from the pact so they would be entirely unregulated.This would also create hierarchical internet with a neutral slower public internet, and a private non-neutral internet that charges a premium. It is unclear whether or not the public, non financed, internet would survive the shift.

Google believes the proposal forces companies to publicly report wireless traffic and would ensure providers played fair and that wireless networks are competive enough that it doesn’t require any type of regulation. Google also protests that wireless network management is different since internet traffic sent over airwaves is less hardy than wired broadband.

Google claims that the internet is not going anywhere. The Google-Verizon pact puts several safeguards in place to protect the current internet. How will these be enforced to ensure fair play? Where would this proposal draw the line?