Most of the major American ISPs built their infrastructure using government money and can only stay financially viable due to having locked, long-term (upwards of 30 year) contracts that were built in an era when the internet wasn't understood. Be realistic, if you could change your cable company, wouldn't you? My house was a one-horse town for years in that regard and let me tell you it was absolutely terrible. Service outages all the time, slow load times (far below what was advertised) and no customer service to speak of. Then a new company arrives on the scene and we've been with them ever since, no complaints.
The campaigns pushing against net neutrality are sponsored by the big guys, because they want to be able to put netflix out of business to make people watch their own OnDemand services. Normally, I'd never advocate government intervention in anything, but until these contracts expire or are revoked, and companies like ComCast have to deal with real competition, there's no reason why they shouldn't be regulated the way they are. They really are just state corporations by any other name.
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