On the peering front, interesting case study is MWeb, an ISP in South Africa. They have the opposite problem in that they recently refused to continue to pay ot

On the peering front, interesting case study is MWeb, an ISP in South Africa. They have the opposite problem in that they recently refused to continue to pay other ISP's in the country for the right to peer with them. So all local traffic to and from their network is routed internationally since they have their own international links. http://bit.ly/b8Bslu http://bit.ly/b8Bslu Framing the argument as a peering dispute is an interesting strategy. But I think the differentiator is that if peering is not allowed, there is no alternative route to the customer. Whereas if it were a traditional peering dispute, the quality of the service would degrade with longer routes rather than be terminated altogether.