When markets are allowed to operate, generally the largest user of a good or service ends up paying the lowest per unit price. In the 1800's, before government regulation, railroads offered their biggest shippers the best rates, to guarantee themselves regular business (one of the keys to Rockefeller's success). As the largest users of bandwith, Netflix and YouTube are not without bargaining power. YouTube is owned by Google, which is already delving into to building out its own internet infrastructure. Net neutrality is a government pricing regulation, and like all such regulations distorts the workings of the market. Eliminating it will eventually allow the market to sort out who pays what for broadband content. That will be fairer and more efficient than government diktat, leading to lower prices overall. However, the many predictions disguised as certainties that have already been made about what will happen are premature. The one certainty about markets is their dynamic unpredictability.

As a Netflix consumer, I would happily pay double their current asking price to get video streams that don't get interrupted in mid-play and resumed at a lower quality bitrate!

here's another take on what ISPs say. Verizon very carefully worded theirs, but also there is that little bit about Netflix to think about....

http://bgr.com/2014/01/15/net-neutrality...