They are not reputable in this case because their interests do not align with the ISPs, consumers, or businesses that rely on the internet. They are just out to sell networking gear and they’ll lie to anyone who will believe them. Here’s an idea lay more fiber invest in your network and then there won’t need to be bandwidth caps.

Now as soon as you tell ISPs to invest in their infrastructure some poor small ISP says, but we don’t have unlimited bandwidth and we don’t make much money at all so everyone else should suffer because we are getting screwed by the big ISPs in traffic trading. Well go cry to congress about the large traffic brokers screwing you over, but breaking the entire internet is not an answer, and should be illegal. Far more important things rely on that infrastructure than your bottom line.

If someone wanted to, they could build fiber optic connections right now to handle internet traffic for the year 3000. The process is not that expensive. They are not building Stealth bombers or sending men to the moon. They are using readily available construction equipment that can be rented from U haul to dig a hole, bury cable in it, and cover the hole back up with dirt.

Children dig holes and fill them back up just for fun.

If the country cared more about keeping itself up than in spying on and killing Muslims, they would take the money they are using to spy on and kill Muslims, and use it to start a public works program to build a fiber optic network across the country like the public works projects they had back during the depression.

A public works project that helped every citizen in the country would cut corporate political donors out of profits though, so it is unlikely such a common sense, rational approach will be taken to solve the problem of internet traffic congestion.