In its official Answer to the CAIP application for Bell to cease network management of its DSL lines, Bell suggested that Google is the real internet gatekeeper.
At paragraph 15 of the executive summary, Bell wrote:
The Companies note the particular irony in Google accusing Bell Canada of playing the “gatekeeper role” by traffic shaping P2P and thereby impeding competition. If there is, indeed, any gatekeeping activity on the Internet, which is questionable, the gatekeeping is being performed by the Internet search engines, which are typically the users’ “window” to the near-infinite content available worldwide.
It appears that reports [see also here and here] are also suggesting that Google is taking on the role of Zuul in trickling out its software development kit for Android phones.
In its comments on the CAIP / Bell spat, Google said:
Google’s business is premised on making its services, content and applications available through the internet to any end user who chooses them, without restriction by any gatekeeper.
Maybe they meant “any gatekeeper, other than Google itself.”
Who you gonna call?