I agree that communications carriers should be content neutral. If they are concerned about bandwidth usage, then meter the bandwidth! Some telco or cable modem guy (maybe SBC) said something like they should be charging Google for using their wires. He left out the fact that WE are paying for the use of the wires, and it should be up to the customer as to what they want to say over those wires.
Unless network neutrality laws appear, I think that broadband providers will be able to offer lower prices to consumers by offering only their content (with advertising revenue) and their communications services (paid VoIP instead of open standards VoIP). The consumer will go with it for the initially low price, then be stuck.
Harold