It works with the reigning cable provider in Chicago. They have been doing this slow lane stuff for the past 5+ years with no competition. Even SDWAN doesn't help because very few places have 2 or more competing ISPs that can offer similar services. How can you route around a misbehaving ISP when they are the only business in town?
I know it sounds fairy tale-ish but at some point the IoT and IPv6 should be able to create enough of a mesh network through devices like cars, coffee makers and drones that the idea of ISPs might only exist in rural areas. It would however mean that everyone reserves a segment of their bandwidth for external traffic. There is that whole trust issue again...
