I hate comments like these because for how frustrating someone is saying they know so much more, you don&#x27;t find any articles written by them, a cost breakdown (because no one wants to share how <i>they</i> do things) and&#x2F;or no real data. Yes, from the ground up starting an ISP, the trenching, the datacenters &amp; everything in-between cost monies, but relative to a company that has all of this in place and doesn&#x27;t upgrade anything, it&#x27;s a moot point. The reason why people complain about caps on anything (cellphone, land data or anything else) is that these companies are making _BILLIONS_ off of us &amp; refuse to upgrade their core network because it&#x27;s beyond 5 or 10 years old.<p>Peering? Peering cost almost $0. I&#x27;ve had friends who had gigabit fiber brought in &amp; they peered with people for next to nothing.