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> the ISPs will be motivated to stay in business and police their customers' traffic harder.

You can be completely forgiven if you're speaking from a non-US perspective, but this made me laugh pretty hard -- in this country we usually have a maximum of one broadband ISP available from any one address.

A small fraction of a few of the most populous, mostly East-coast, cities, have fiber and a highly asymmetrical DOCSIS cable option. The rest of the country generally has the cable option (if suburban or higher density) and possibly a complete joke of ADSL (like 6-12Mbps down).

There is nearly zero competition, most customers can choose to either keep their current ISP or switch to something with far worse speed/bandwidth caps/latency, such as cellular internet, or satellite.



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