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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
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this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2026
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They have pretty good peering with many other ISPs and providers and also host cache nodes from the different content providers.
The price is 777 CHF per year since > 10 years (about 75 USD per Month). The bandwidth was increased from 1 to 10 to 25 Gbit while the price stays the same. You only have to pay a upgrade fee of 90 USD for someone to go out to the PoP and change the optics if you upgrade.
I think what you are talking about is consumer ISPs charging for peering (for example DTAG aka Deutsche Telekom is doing this double extortion scheme where they charge their customers and then charge netflix, meta etc. for their traffic too).
Swisscom (biggest ISP in switzerland) tried to charge init7 for peering with this scheme but init7 went to court and won that peering has to stay free (no charge for traffic) for net neutrality. This prevents that swisscom can push out competitors and make the market a monopoly. (writeup if you are interested about this scheme init7 calls it a cartel: https://blog.init7.net/en/to-peer-or-not-to-peer-kartelle-im-internet/ )
The price is 777 CHF per year since > 10 years (about 75 USD per Month).
They also have a pretty new cheaper option aka Easy7 which uses CGNAT (they are a "new" ISP and don't have that much IPv4 space) and fixed IPv6 /56 with 1Gbit for about 50 USD per month.
I just wanted to point out that this market we have in switzerland (and a lot of it was fought for by init7 in court) brings us great options and also is future proof.