net neutrality's last days

With the FCC's officials taking a clear stance against net neutrality the future looks pretty grim. Why am I paying for more bandwidth if the carriers can limit the rate at the source? Why bother? Not just any source, those sources they believe will yield vast untold stores of money. Yes the mana will flow because companies like AT&T will be allowed to charge google for the privilege of bandwidth usage. Last I checked google and all of those other major companies are already paying for bandwidth. I don't believe the profit margin on network usage is so low as to require a tiered payment structure. In addition, I don't see this benefiting anyone other than the large monopolistic phone companies we've recently allowed to be created. I'm a little forgetful but wasn't there some reason behind breaking up Ma Bell? Oh yea, competition and consumer value which I guess we don't care about anymore.

I guess it will benefit a few companies, like Cisco, and Juniper. Why give away the ability to selectively impose bandwidth limitations based on content providers, when you can charge for a new device with that capability at a premium.