That isn't the problem. This is mostly backbone and inter-city stuff. Load problems come because ISP's didn't build-out their local networks enough to support the bandwidth they've sold to customers. You know that when they tell 10,000 people they get 10 Mbps, there isn't 100 Gbps available. But now that enough customers are actually using their 10 Mbps, there's a problem. The lie could only last so long. So far the private sector solution has been to increase local capacity a bit, but also to crack down in some devious ways on those customers who dare to use their contracted bandwidth.
I have to give kudos to Time Warner Cable for honestly playing with different pricing structures, and to Verizon for supporting landline net neutrality (although VZW doesn't like it for wireless). Unfortunately, they're only numbers 3 and 4 in the market. The main culprits have been numbers 1 and 2, Comcast and AT&T, and obviously they tend to be worst in places where they have a monopoly.
-—————That isn’t the problem. This is mostly backbone and inter-city stuff. Load problems come because ISP’s didn’t build-out their local networks enough to support the bandwidth they’ve sold to customers.——————
I see what you mean. This isn’t a coast-to-coast issue. It’s a NYC-to-NYC issue.(for example)