The announcement comes the same day that rumors of a Google-Verizon deal on net neutrality made headlines. Records show that Verizon and Google were among the companies to take advantage of the closed-door sessions, meeting privately with the FCC on Aug. 3. Reports of private meetings between the commission and tech companies like Google, AT&T, Verizon, and Skype emerged in late June.

The FCC then confirmed these meetings, and said it would keep the public informed on its Web site about the companies with which it was meeting. At issue was the commission's open Internet, or net neutrality, proceeding. Chairman Julius Genachowski in October proposed net neutrality rules, which would permit broadband ISPs to engage in reasonable network management, but they would not be able to discriminate against specific applications, like BitTorrent.

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