&gt; cable company business practices<p>Nearly by definition, &quot;cable company business practices&quot; means shared bandwidth circuits, the business practices in question being network QoS attempts to make it profitable to offer shared network services at low cost.<p>I&#x27;d love to see a mathematical analysis of how much FIOS would cost if everyone got a 100% dedicated circuit at anything close to the advertised specs.<p>The hubbub about T-Mobile&#x27;s policy is a misguided rant which idealistically supposes that all bandwidth should be sold in some idealized &quot;dedicated&quot; way with no QoS imposed.  It certainly could be sold that way, but at a much higher price.