"Verizon's plan should be assumed to be a 200Kbps plan that can occasionally burst to 50Mbps" No, it should be assumed that they get "fast enough" up to 50Mbps

"Verizon's plan should be assumed to be a 200Kbps plan that can occasionally burst to 50Mbps" No, it should be assumed that they get "fast enough" up to 50Mbps... which they did get (and didn't complain about) up to the throttle (which they did complain about). Sure, the data threshold and throttling are in the terms, but even Verizon admitted they made a mistake explaining the meaning of the terms to the fire department (easy to misread anyways for the average consumer, and throttling is not something the carriers advertise). The net neutrality issue is the fact that Verizon wasn't throttling due to overall network congestion (which was an exception to the previous regulation), but just because the fire department hit the data cap... under net nuetrality this would not be allowed, though the risk is that not having throttling means a threshold data shut-off.