> How? Great firewall of Europe? Or what exactly are you proposing?
Forcing them to follow basic rules of fairness is usually enough to keep them out.
Forcing them to follow basic rules of fairness is usually enough to keep them out.
Frankly, it wouldn't be that surprising if net neutrality started getting violated in Europe by protectionism laws.
ALL traffic from DTAG users first runs to a Level3 datacenter in New York, and from there goes to other users.
While all other German ISPs have a peering node at DECIX
(TAT-14 is a transatlantic cable owned by DTAG and Telia)
It’s common knowledge in the industry by now that the DTAG uses their 40 million users as leverage to force companies to directly peer with them (and pay for peering).
As for the issue at hand (YT being slow), like a sibling post states, that's because they refuse to peer at DECIX where everybody else is. They even tried to frame the NSA scandals as "IT companies, be responsible, keep user data in German networks and peer with us directly (on our terms, which will be expensive for you - they 'forgot' to mention that in the press releases)".
The best way to make DTAG more customer friendly (both upstream and downstream) is to move somewhere else.
Luckily in cities you have 5+ ISPs to choose from (some of them DTAG resellers, but still an improvement), and even on the country side it's typically at least 3.
However, if we granted more fairness to the companies, we wouldn't have more or better companies. We'd just be invaded by huge US companies, because they're just better and move faster. So, yes, we have to start with smaller actors who just rely on the openness of the markets of dominant actors: We couldn't build Apple but we rely on their Appstore to have fair rules, we couldn't build Amazon EC2 but our companies rely on the openness of the EC2 service, we couldn't build Windows but we rely on Microsoft publishing its API. And this API documentation is exactly the subject of the $2bn fine that Microsoft received from EU in 2003.
I'm sorry, perhaps US performs too well, but we need open APIs in Europe. From the fines I've seen, the decisions aren't generic protectionism, they're focused on keeping free market so we can have some local startups too.