[fullito]

Peering costs money and ISPs like Telekom are missusing it.

All those Telekom Endusers are consuming Google Services like YouTube etc. but Telekom doesn't peer for free. You have plenty of peering congestion stories here in germany for the last 10 years.

A german hoster called Hetzner, also did not wanted to play that game with Telekom and you were able to pay 5,- Euros per Month to have paid peering between your Server and Telekom.

When you look at Telekoms peering: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/196 they have only 20G with DE-CIX Frankfurt. They don't peer publicly, we should force them :(

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/433 google vs. do https://www.peeringdb.com/net/6494

Reliability, redundancy, peering, latency are factors.

[iscoelho]

Private peering agreements usually have NDAs & are not listed anywhere. The big clouds are a magnitude larger than Hetzner as well.

Google didn't start out as a cloud. Especially with YouTube, they no questions have private peering with Telekom.

Azure? Windows Update, Xbox, & more. Tons of data coming from the Microsoft network with their immense market share. They no questions have private peering as well.

Amazon? That is the only one that may not have private peering with Telekom, but considering they reign #1 in the cloud wars, it is also likely.