Democrats unveil legislation forcing the FCC to ban Internet fast lanes
The trouble with all this is that it is reactive rather than proactive.<p>There is a simple solution that would put an end to all this BS,  and this is to separate the last mile from the middle mile the same way that the old AT&T was broken up to split local from long distance service.  (This is how they do it in the UK and UK people are very happy with their internet service.)<p>In this case you get a choice of different middle miles and different television services from different providers.  If work got around that "the Verizon network is congested" people would just switch,  and I think you would find network connectivity problems get fixed in days rather than years.