This overlooks the fact that telephony has been and is still a very lucrative business. The lure of that telephony dollar is prompting many packet purveyors into the telephony business. Some might say that those rushing to join the incumbent providers of telephony speech can't want a whole lot of free speech to happen - else they would stay away. To say that sounds a little harsh.
Altruistic motives can and often do accompany profit motives.
Even conventional Internet access, which heretofore has been very affordable, seems headed for expensiveness. That threat is from two quarters. One is the relentless march to merge by Internet and telcom service providers. The other is the feeding frenzy that's been happening on Wall Street by those investors gobbling up Internet stocks. Actually, those service providers rushing to achieve dominance by buying up their competitors are really just the stock market's high rollers.