I really don't understand US model. But it seams it doesn't work. In developed countries there's a thing called competition which is good for the consumer. you can choose from dozens of companies and you have fibre, adsl and cable available everywhere, not to mention 4G services. With competition everyone wins. Usually what happens is that X company starts a new offer (more speed or Y service or less expensive) the others follow to avoid losing costumers, then another company does the same and so on. That's why bandwith caps and traffic shapping hurts the companies. I don't understand why kansas as to say OK to google to offer one more service. In my country every ISP has a triple play offer. Actually it's much more then triple, they offer a lot more services like mobile tv, 4G, free wifi networks, video on demand, and so on.