The "free Internet" stuff and Comcast VS Netflix is an interesting thing to talk about..
But not only the USA has some problems in that field.
We have our Telekom in Germany (and its the same as T-Mobile US!).
They tryed to limit the traffic on all existent DSL/VDSL contracts (the usual time is 24 months for an ISP contract here) and get stopped by a court because the current contract is named "flatrate" and it should be a flatrate.
Things got stuck now, nothing happens - but they just have to rename it and all new contracts will be traffic limited.
The second thing - they have a nice new infrastructure, FTTH (Fibre to the home) with up to 200mbit/s download and 100mbit/s upload right now. There a 2 different contracts out there - one with 200GB traffic limit and one with 400GB, the second one is faster and more expensive.
The main problem - they also run "Entertain", their own multimedia service with movies, TV and other stuff.
They try to cut off companies like Netflix, but they dont do any throttling. They offer they own Entertain-package and dont count this as traffic.
And the 200 or 400GB traffic limit is enough to stop people from using anything else, specially because they will cut the speed to DSL light (forget downloads, your good ping, skype calls and anything else) after it and there is no way to avoid it (not even as a business-plan).
What do you think about this ?
I dont like it and Telekom is our biggest ISP (like 80% of all DSL, VDSL and Fibre connections are realised on their infrastructure), so what ever happens - other ISP will follow and keep it up.
Internet is pretty expensive here so they earn more than enough money selling it and "Entertain" was not running well so they try to push it now...