A free market and tiered pricing may well make sense, but it seems the other side's arguments are avoiding the one true issue :-) Should the incumbents be allowed to discriminate against network users who are their competition in content and services? Or should all users and suppliers have equal access at equal prices.

If we think of the network as analogous to the hardware+OS and the content as application software, then perhaps there's a precedent: DOJ vs MSFT.