said by ross :

Well, yup, it is all about a "business-to-business dispute" that is unfortunately going to do irreparable harm to the internet, internet commerce, internet users, distributors and consumers of information.

However, the issue is not "new businesses" tying down "old businesses". The issue is the prevention of the violation of the basic tenets of the internet, i.e., protocol and provider neutrality and free flow of information. The "old businesses" wish to be gatekeepers and purveyors of content, as well as providers of connection services, and they want to charge both the "new businesses" and their customers for access to the internet, and then charge them again for delivery and receipt of information, while at the same time decrementing the quality of "new businesses" services/content in favor of the "old businesses" competing services/content. All of which you already know, but choose to conveniently ignore in favor of your position in support of incumbent infrastructure owners, who ought to be prohibited from doing anything other than providing the very best provider neutral internet connection service possible, banning their participation in the market for proprietary content and content delivery on anything but a "dumb pipe" basis.

If this were an issue of "free market" capitalism, the FCC would be enforcing the network neutrality generating competition envisioned in the Telecom Act of 1996, which, of course they are not, because Telco "owns" the FCC.