Good Morning
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It is a general thing. I would have thought swiss ISPs buying a bit more selective based on rtt and peering being local or close by. Disclaimers apply left and right, for you know who I am etc. But I am really surprised, believe it or not.
yes we do care about rtt - but we can't ignore the prices. it's the usual trade-off :-( If you have to pay twice the price for peering transit as for full transit the decision is clear - at least from my point of view.
Think about it this way - before there were 2 ISPs you had with 'interesting' domestic peering policies. Now you have three... I could bet with you these three do not react so much about traffic over their upstream unless it is some 500m sustained...? I speak of experience, in a way
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in the past it showed, that this "bad" domestic peering policies even brought customers to our network. You can very well explain the peering policy of a big domestic ISP to your own customers and earn their sympathy and support.
Regards
Nik