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> Verizon's vision for Fios was to sell a bunch of value-add services like video calling and on-demand movies. When plain-old-internet services started providing those capabilities without having to pay Verizon directly, Fios deployments slowed to a crawl.

Let's say this succeeded and people jumped to Verizon for their internet and their media. What would happen to Amazon Video and Netflix?

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Verizon might want to ensure that their products work better than NetFlix and Amazon by throttling network traffic going to those domains? Perhaps even stall the pipe every now and then to frustrate users into seeking more stable alternatives? Oh, look! Verizon's service is so much faster than those other two!! I wonder why?!?!

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