If my internet provided did this... I would change Internet providers. It's that simple.
Thankfully Australia tends to be a little more sensible in this cases.

People...I can just say one thing: If you allow this to happen it’s your own fault! If you don’t stand together to fight this shit it’s going to happen to you.

Imagine if EA ran the internet. That's what we are up against.

Sometimes I want to punch Ajit Pai in the face everytime he smiles.

But it seems this is already happening in Portugal? Thus it's not a worst-case scenario but reality instead. Also, I seriously doubt any competition is going to show up to save you. I imagine it's very hard to get into telecom business, and as long as the situation doesn't get too bad (only worse), there won't be enough demand for competition anyway.

According to the Australian Beureau of Statistics I have access to 419 Internet Service Providers (With 77~ being large companies), which all have access to the same physical infrastructure.
So I am pretty sure competition in my case will ensure such a thing never happens.

People do need to complain until the cows come home... Complaints is what has brought us to the point where companies like EA are taking a long hard look at Micro-transactions, people are voting with their wallets and their voices and it's working.

But but but games networks cost so much money nowadays. It's only fair for publishers providers to find new ways to monetize their games service to be able to pay for expensive online servers routers. Gamers Internet users are so fucking entitled nowadays.

This will probably never get out of control because at some point publishers providers will have enough money and trickle it back to their customers in form of much better games internet.

Most likely current incumbents are going to cooperate to raise techical barriers in order to prevent newcomers to entry while making implict agreements on customer fees. This is what usually happens in "competitve" markets.

Wait... so how did we all manage without "net neutrality" rules in place from the initial explosion of the world wide web in the 90s all the way up to 2015? Net neutrality is archaic and makes the net about as "neutral" as the Affordable Care Act actually makes health care "affordable" for the average person (hint: it doesn't). At the core of net neutrality is the central question of who should get to control access and traffic to the internet, governments or private companies, and both have significant pros and cons.

The real issue is there are only a handful of telecom / ISPs here in the US, and they each have a near-monopoly on TV, internet and phone service in every region of the country. Years ago you had dozens of smaller, regional cable providers for example, but as the bigger ones like Comcast took over and expanded their share of the market, prices started going up and up every year and consumers had less and less of a choice. The cable / internet companies should be broken up to allow for more consumer choice and more competition in the market.

If it does, we protest. How long until they do a 'online gaming only' package which is more expensive because we use more bandwidth or some bullshit.

I can't believe any European country is even considering this. The free internet will die and the Portuguese people aren't just standing by are they? This is large corporations controlling you, don't accept it.