the wireline operators are mature companies, amazon is investing heavily in growth. this is an obvious distinction. courts and regulators constantly apply this sort of informed judgment and nuance to their analyses because it's required for their jobs.
I agree there are big differences between these ISPs and Amazon. I was just making the point that Amazon's lack of a profit wouldn't exempt it from these regulations either. Profit is as much a bookkeeping/tax/business policy as it is an actual market signal.
You can only fake it to a certain extent since you report cash flow. Even for cash flow from operating activities Google (35%), Apple (30%), and Facebook (52%!) outshone Comcast (25%).
