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by mschuster91 1264 days ago
Because the large carriers make a ton of money by extorting their clients (ISPs and data centers) with absurd data interchange pricing. Some like Deutsche Telekom are even worse, they charge both their residential and mobile customers as well as anyone trying to peer with them.

That's partially also the reason why the extremely large players like Google and Facebook have built their own sub-sea fibre lines. Utter madness.