Comparing our situation to other countries does not make for a valid argument. South Korea is basically one densely populated city.
What is holding back the US is our early adoption of technology. We laid a very robust infrastructure for the time well before most countries. We now have to deal with that aging technology that criss crosses this nation.

Not to mention the sheer size of the country and the difficulty in networking it. We want Japan 1Gig speed today and for less than a hundred dollars. Who is paying for this upgrade?

I worked extensively on the Verizon FIOS project during the planning stages and can tell you Verizon is losing their A** on the build out. It will be many years before they can recoop the cost.

Blockbusters will go the way of the DoDo. The overhead required by the Brick and Mortar will not be able to keep up.

I was a Netflix user way back when and was loving it. Then I started to noticed that my rentals were taking longer and longer to arrive. There was a 1 month stint where I was laid up at home after an injury and was renting movies like crazy. It was at the end of that month that I found my DVD's were taking longer and longer. This was before they admitted to having this list. After that month at home I was back at work and back to my routine rental pace but my DVD's were still being throttled. A few months later Netflix admits to the throttling I try in vain to get myself taken off this list to which they would not so I left them. I would go back but it left such a sour taste in my mouth that my stubborness will not allow it.

The notion of QoS makes completely sense I think they are going about it all wrong and for the wrong reasons. Any leecher worth his weight can easily get around these limitations. Want to impose priority on torrent use port 80 which will be a higher priority.

Now the notion of caps does not make sense. This will only lessen the development or adoption of innovative content. I believe the idea of caps is in place more to protect the providers content rather than the limiting of their bandwidth. If you were Cox or Comcast with VOD services would you want your customer using Netflix? Youtube just added HD Video which is a great service providing the end user a better experience but the file sizes will be larger.. limiting downloads will only place limits on innovation.

Take a globe, cut out Japan lay it on top of the US... there is your reason why we do not have the bandwidth they do. That is a big reason. The other reason is we were early adopters of technologies that required a large investment in infrastructure changing that overnight to accommodate emerging technologies is not a cheap investment. We want ... need high speed internet and once we get into the Gig range we will not truly see innovative uses by the end user but we want these speeds cheap and now.