The online giant threatens US legislators with anti-trust actions if high-speed Internet providers will exploit the market power received through the communications reform legislation approved by the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee last week. Google has stressed that such eventual abuse will be met with legal complaints.

"If the legislators ... insist on neutrality, we will be happy. If they do not put it in, we will be less happy but then we will have to wait and see whether or not there actually is any abuse," said Vint Cerf, a Google vice-president and one of the pioneers of the Internet. "If we are not successful in our arguments ... then we will simply have to wait until something bad happens and then we will make known our case to the Department of Justice's anti-trust division," he added.

The issue at hand, referred to as Net neutrality is centered on the broadband providers' right to charge additional fees for unaffiliated content and for a guarantee in service quality.

But it narrowly rejected attempts by some lawmakers to strengthen safeguards on Internet service, which had pitted high-speed Internet, or broadband, providers such as AT&T against Internet content companies like Google.

"My company, along with many others believes that the Internet should stay open and accessible to everyone equally," Cerf also said. "We are worried that some of the broadband service providers will interfere with that principle and will attempt to use their control over broadband transport facilities to interfere with services of competitors."