I don't think it's quite as you put it. I think Hetzner is saying more: === We believe in net neutrality, but some of our customers have noticed that users of t

I don't think it's quite as you put it. I think Hetzner is saying more: === We believe in net neutrality, but some of our customers have noticed that users of these telecom companies cannot access their services during peak hours, or the service is quite slow. Since we cannot change market dynamics, we are offering our customers a way to offer their customers faster service during peak periods with this "pay per peering" option. === My understanding (which may be incorrect) is that Hetnzer is telling existing customers that instead of having to install servers within the ISP network, they can instead pay a marginal fee per month to bypass the congested peering links to these providers.