I suspect as the popularity of streaming high-bandwidth content to cell phones increases there will be less control over this by carriers.
In the early days of broadband many ISPs would have clauses like this. With everyone now bittorrenting and streaming media theres really nothing the ISPs can do, except some cheap stuff like traffic shaping (not so much in the US though). I think its only a short matter of time when cell carriers are forced to give in and just allow it. Otherwise the ones who don't will start losing customers to the ones who do...
In the early days of broadband many ISPs would have clauses like this. With everyone now bittorrenting and streaming media theres really nothing the ISPs can do, except some cheap stuff like traffic shaping (not so much in the US though). I think its only a short matter of time when cell carriers are forced to give in and just allow it. Otherwise the ones who don't will start losing customers to the ones who do...