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I thought Switzerland has some of the highest ISP transit charges on the continent?

I do believe Switzerland has the highest everything

Rule of thumb I once heard as a German:

"Compared to us the Swiss pay double but earn triple the money".

I could see that. They are consistently ranked as enjoying among the happiest of lifestyles.

Germans have a ultra-wealthy upper class which own everything and skew net wealth figures massively. The bottom 50% of German residents by net wealth have nearly nothing compared to those in a similar situation in neighboring EU countries.

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Table A3 Net wealth medians - breakdowns

EUR thousands

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/pdf/research/hfcn/HFCS_Statis...

And this is several times more expensive than FTTH in the neighboring countries.

(Sure, maybe not as fast FTTH, but it doesn't matter much when everyone else is still lagging way behind, so over, say, 10 Mo/s you quickly get into diminishing returns.)

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