I can only talk about what I have personally tested:
Cabletica, ICE, Kolbi, Claro, Moviestar all need to be called and asked to open this port.
I have to call to open many ports blocked by default for BTC or other uses like CCTV.
I also see many other posts around the world making the same complaints.
Eh, all in Costa Rica and seemingly none of them have support for English-speaking customers. This isn't a representative sample of the worldwide Internet. And by a margin so wide that it makes your statement laughable.
From my experience trying to support the use of Bittorrent (both commercially and individually) and various RPC stacks (commercial support for home workers) I can say that the "complaints" don't equal the real ISP problems. Only somewhere between 1% and 5% are the real provider-caused blocking/interference/mishandling. The remaining 95% to 99% is on the customer-caused misconfiguration or hardware/software faults.
If you bothered to read my post:
Many ISPs, used advanced filtering products to protect their network and clients like
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/security-monitoring-analysis-response-system/index.html , so even if they aren't overtly blocking TCP on port 8333 but their firewalls and filters are because it is detecting a suspicious transfer.
You can test for 8333 being opened here -
http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ and if you don't have more than 8 connection in bitcoin QT you are not accepting any incoming connections on port 8333.
Sometimes its a local firewall blocking you or you need to either allow UPnP or port forward to get QT functioning as a full node but in many other cases its the ISP themselves.
Regardless of the exact specifics with each case, most users aren't acting as a full node and the numbers back my claim. The average user isn't going to call their ISP , or create a forwarding rule in their router and make sure their firewall is configured properly. The whole point was forking to a 20MB block limit will have an insignificant effect upon node count because almost all of those nodes are miners to begin with. It is foolish to expect most users to be able to unblock port 8333 like I have whether by doing so through a local router and/or contacting their ISP.
P.s.... in case anyone is interested this country will also block certain sites depending upon the content. Usually gun related sites that deal specifically with purchasing weapons from what I have seen. Arms have to be purchased through TOR or a VPN.