In some cases, two networks will judge that their exchange is close enough to equal value that they will have a settlement-free peering in some locations at some speed.
Every few years, an MBA at a telco decides that there is rent to extract, often because they don't understand how the Internet works.
They are always wrong.
In Germany the largest ISP Deutsche Telekom is not peering publicly in any meaningful manner. To get access to their customers you need to pay them a lot of money and connect to their network at some remote locations. It's the reason why YouTube was laggy for years for the majority of German customers until Google finally caved.
He has a good, dry humor and some very valid points on why this is just the same old story as it ever was.
If there is an ISP giving out free bandwidth somewhere, do please let me know.
Definitely worth exploring if you have any kind of large files to distribute, which seems like it might be the goal given the question was about bandwidth specifically.
Some platforms may use their own scale to provide some form of free hosting, such as Cloudflare pages, but at the end of the day this is just moving costs around between users, and Enterprise customers still pick up their hosting bill.
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At what rate is overage bandwidth billed? Overage rates for bandwidth utilization in excess of instance allocation vary due to differences in regional costs. Overage rates are applied based on instance location according to the following list:
$0.01/GB Overage Rate Amsterdam, NL Atlanta, Georgia Chicago, Illinois Dallas, Texas Frankfurt, DE Honolulu, Hawaii London, UK Los Angeles, California Madrid Miami, Florida New York (NJ) Paris, France Seattle, Washington Silicon Valley, California Stockholm, Sweden Toronto, Canada Warsaw, Poland $0.03/GB Overage Rate Singapore Tokyo, Japan $0.05/GB Overage Rate Bangalore, India Delhi NCR, India Melbourne, Australia Mexico City, Mexico Mumbai, India Seoul, South Korea Sydney, Australia São Paulo, Brazil