An interesting article over at Light Reading about AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest's thoughts about p2p, and whether or not such traffic is a serious problem for their networks. Qwest CTO Pieter Poll even goes so far as to openly wonder if there's even a problem.

"Poll says he's looked at Qwest's peering points for some idea of how much P2P traffic is on its networks. And, while he admits that it's not an exact measurement of the P2P traffic load, he says the fears of network congestion are a little overblown. "I found that the traffic is well under what some in that industry say is happening. I mean, you hear claims of significant double-digit penetration of peer-to-peer traffic, and it was not near there," Poll says."

Verizon meanwhile says they're dealing with p2p on a "congestion management basis", and being "reactive rather than proactive."