The issue focused on the cost to build the broadband networks in California and Maryland that Google is building with a consortium of major ISPs in both states, in part to expand Google's internet services.


After the three-day technology forum in Berkeley on Wednesday, Netflix raised the question of whether an AT&T network should be built along the Humboldt Transcontinental Railroad line in California. In the cable news industry, the move was generally seen as a way to head off similar criticism from the cable companies