[eqvinox]

Uh, Switzerland is one of the best locations to do this in, due to the government fibre build-out mandate. However, you have to start a little larger than "minimum" ISP size in other countries to be able to take advantage of it.

Peering… really depends on where you are, it hasn't been a problem for us.

That said, Init7 is, for the time being, still a scaled-up mini ISP. They're slowly devolving into corporate-dom, but not there yet.

[theideaofcoffee]

I’m interested to hear more about Init7 becoming more corporate, is that just by virtue of growth and having to adapt to the complexity of being a larger org? Or something else?

[eqvinox]

It's just market pressure to make/keep things cheap (= "optimising" support), and also with becoming larger it's harder to reach the 'tech nerds' as normal customer if you don't have another social connection to them.

[immibis]

I don't know anything about init7 but there was a talk at WHY2025 about XS4ALL in the Netherlands, and the reasons they let it become corporate boiled down to "we didn't understand how vicious capitalism was and we let the corporation win" (although they still don't realize that, and phrase it more like "there was a difference of values")