I don't know why everyone is up in arm over this. Here is reverse thinking and a perfect oppoturnity for everyone. The current situation is that Comcast doesn'

I don't know why everyone is up in arm over this. Here is reverse thinking and a perfect oppoturnity for everyone. The current situation is that Comcast doesn't have the equipment/resources to handle extra internet traffic at its peers. Most people want Comcast to buy more stuff to handle it, why don't we think the opposite way- get Comcast to decrease its amount of traffic? If we can get Comcast to consume less traffic, they wouldn't have to complain to other peers about load asymmetry. The best way to decrease traffic? Make Comcast has less customers. Why does Comcast has so many customers, even though their resources cannot handle it? Because they have a government mandated monopoly in the last mile, so they are forced to have more customers than what they can handle. We can come to a conclusion that last-mile monopoly -> network congestion -> forcing L3 to pay for peer. If Comcast has to compete with other ISPs for last miles, the traffic load would shift from 1 single entity (Comcast) to 10+ smaller ISPs. In such case the traffic load problem would not exist. Another solution is to breakup Comcast. See? This is a perfect opportunity. Comcast can has its multi-tier network, but at the price of the last mile monoploy. After all, if they want to have the right to choose peers, we customers should also have the right to choose ISPs.