Its not just Verizon customers that are affected. Its a good chance that no matter who you use, your traffic goes over some other companies network (probably several) before you get to the destination server. So this affects everyone, and changing services won't help. If you can run a traceroute (probably blocked for you now), you would see a bunch of different routers in your path to your destination server. Those routers could be owned by several different companies. Now if one of those companies decided to affect the type of traffic going through those routers, then everyone traversing those routers is affected.
Now whether those paths will be too congested, and whether those companies have a right to change the ammount or type of traffic flowing on those paths is up for debate.
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Its not just Verizon customers that are affected. Its a good chance that no matter who you use, your traffic goes over some other companies network (probably several) before you get to the destination server. So this affects everyone, and changing services won't help. If you can run a traceroute (probably blocked for you now), you would see a bunch of different routers in your path to your destination server. Those routers could be owned by several different companies. Now if one of those companies decided to affect the type of traffic going through those routers, then everyone traversing those routers is affected. Now whether those paths will be too congested, and whether those companies have a right to change the ammount or type of traffic flowing on those paths is up for debate.