Verizon FiOS iPhone update slowdown?

In trying to download the iOS 8 update for iPhone, estimates range between 24 and 48 hours on my laptop.

I have a few servers in the Amazon cloud, so I connected to one of them and downloaded the update from there. It took about 10 seconds to download from Apple's servers to my server!

Then, transferring the update file from the amazon server to my machine took about 7 minutes at a download rate of 5.7MB/s.

Is this indicative of a purposeful slowdown from Verizon? Seems like a Net Neutrality issue.