Wait... You mean Comcast will charge paying customers more, to subsidize the freeloaders? That way they'll keep the stockholders “whole,” and gaining positive publicity??? The next thing you'll tell me is that Comcast has a monopoly, and the paying customers have no alternative, but get screwed! (except to cancel cable)
This was part of the price comcast was literally blackmailed into paying for the deal to take over nbc by the FCC and DOJ.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375935,00.asp
The FCC also imposed several voluntary conditions, though the “volunteer” conditions are enforceable, so Comcast and NBCU must comply. Those include making low-cost broadband service available to 2.5 million households; and maintaining and adding local, children’s, diversity, and educational programming.
Those voluntarily conditions also include complying with the FCC’s open Internet net neutrality rules, Cohen said.