&gt; but the real problem is ISPs which don&#x27;t want to be nothing but a transport provider.<p>This is very, very true. Anyone who has worked at a telco should&#x27;ve heard the &quot;we don&#x27;t want to be a dumb pipe&quot; argument. The thing is: they can&#x27;t be more than that! I don&#x27;t want their applications, they are not very good at doing applications. I don&#x27;t want their content, they don&#x27;t seem to get content production at all. Even their research, it has become less and less relevant.<p>As a customer, I&#x27;d rather see all that money spent on efficient ways of <i>transporting bytes</i>, or even directly <i>subsidizing</i> the customer bill (so that they can support smaller ARPUs). But no; I have to pay extra to support the entertainment of their engineers, in order to get sub-optimal apps and content.