Even the English speaking world is seeing what's going on in France ... http://www.telecompaper.com/news/france-telecom-commits-to-more-transparency-in-peering
... enjoy! Martin Martin J. Levy Director IPv6 Strategy Hurricane Electric 760 Mission Court, Fremont, CA 94539, USA +1 408 499 3801 (mobile) mar...@he.net (email) http://he.net/ (web) -------------------- News France Telecom commits to more transparency in peering Wednesday 4 April 2012 | 10:50 CET France Telecom-Orange has made a commitment to the Competition Authority to make its internet interconnection pricing and technical offer more transparent following a regulatory decision stemming from a January 2011 complaint by US internet connectivity provider Cogent. At the time Orange customers complained of slower downloads from MegaUpload and MegaVideo, carried by Cogent. The US firm accused France Telecom-Orange of throttling access to its users and to not have invested enough for acceptable QoS. The French operator sought additional payment to open new interconnection capacity as free peering would not be able to compensate for much higher traffic in one direction than in the other. The Competition Authority criticised France Telecom-Orange for the opacity of its arrangement with its Open Transit subsidiary, a competitor of Cogent, finding that the prices charged to an unnamed very popular website seem to be substantially lower than market rates. However it did not find the French operator to have broken its peering agreement by refusing Cogent access to its customers, but only wanted to be paid for it. The regulator will run market tests until 3 May to collect observations from websites, hosts, transit operators, ISPs and other actors about France Telecom's proposals. It will meet again to determine whether the proposed commitments are sufficient to meet competition concerns. --------------------------- Liste de diffusion du FRnOG http://www.frnog.org/
