Netflix: Comcast lying about Internet ‘tolls’

By: American Decency Staff

Netflix is accusing Comcast of misrepresenting a deal between the two companies to boost video streaming.

The company said Comcast has falsely stated in testimony to Congress that the deal was Netflix's idea, the online video streaming company told Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) in a letter Thursday.

Last week, Franken asked Netflix to weigh in on a proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Franken has vocally opposed the merger, which would combine two of the country's largest cable and Internet companies.

In the company's response, Netflix Vice President of Global Public Policy Chris Libertelli repeated the company's call for the Obama administration to block the merger and pointed to the recent "interconnection" deal it struck with Comcast.

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