Gert Doering schrieb:
This may be true for some smaller countries, but believe me, it's MORE expensive to get a line from "somewhere in Germany" to one of the major IXes than to get upstream from a number of big ISPs at wherever you are.
Except you do the (rather moronic) move seen at some places, get a non-redundant fibre across the whole country and collect peering and upstream at a major IX. If the fibre breaks you're doomed, but hey, it's cheap. A company I work for is currently announcing three RIPE-TLAs (one own, two on behalf of our customers), adding a fourth in short time. Not connected to any IX, although a rather major IX would be in 20km radius. And another company will start next week (hopefully), also not connected to an IX due to political issues. Bernhard