Reuters has mucked this story up. Germany does not want a German Internet, that's just plain silly. Deutsche Telekom just wants to rearrange its peering with o

Reuters has mucked this story up. Germany does not want a German Internet, that's just plain silly. Deutsche Telekom just wants to rearrange its peering with other German ISPs so that requests that originate and end in Germany never leave Germany. Seeing as DT's current peering costs are the reason that some packets take a round-about way in the first place, it's just a marketing move.