The claim is that ISPs won't see it in their best interest to restrict access to particular content, or to charge premiums. That's inconsistent with their obse

The claim is that ISPs won't see it in their best interest to restrict access to particular content, or to charge premiums. That's inconsistent with their observed behavior (e.g., charging extra for mobile phone tethering, even though shipping packets costs them the same whether or not the phone ships them three feet further to a laptop). It's also inconsistent with their expressed desires (viz., for instance, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre whining about Google and Yahoo wanting to "use [our] pipes free" --- even though the pipes in question were already paid for by customers who thought they had every right to use them to access Google content). For more on the relevant history, I recommend "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu, or "The Creation of the Media" by Paul Starr. Cite on the Whitacre quote: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ip-telephony/how-google-can-tell-ed-whitacre-to-get-lost/949 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ip-telephony/how-google-can-tell-e...