Peer-to-peer warfare is a form of fierce competition between large Internet providers , in which rejection of peering or its extremely unfavorable forms in the presence of more convenient alternatives are used as a means of eliminating competitors and pressure on market partners. Peer-to-peer wars sharply negatively affect the price of Internet connection, its availability for the end user and quality (speed).
The most visible manifestation of peer-to-peer wars in Russia :
- introduction in 2002-2005 by the largest Russian backbone operators ( RTKomm.ru , Golden Telecom and MTU-Intel , which formed the "Separate Peering Group") [1] prices for Russian traffic (formerly for Russian operators exchanging traffic for MSK-IX and some other traffic exchange points, it was free). In 2004, Transtelecom joined this practice; [2]
- Rostelecom’s conflict with large providers in the summer of 2009, refusal to peer networks within the country, netting and traffic exchange in Europe .
- The conflict in 2019 between one of the largest content providers in Russia, Mail.ru Group, and telecom operator Vimpelcom , during which the Mail.ru Group stopped direct traffic to the Vimpelcom network, technically reconfiguring its network connectivity in such a way that traffic between the two networks went through European telecom operators. According to the Mail.ru group, this was done due to the increase in the cost of SMS delivery to Vimpelcom network users by Mail.ru Group by 6 times. [3]
See also
- Net neutrality
- Wikinews - Internet backbone hosts feud, disconnecting users
Notes
- ↑ Zoya Trubetskaya. Peer-to-peer wars . www.comnews.ru (11/17/2005). Date of treatment March 3, 2019.
- ↑ VALERY OF THE CODERS. Transtelecom changes gigabytes to rubles // Kommersant. - 2004. - January 28 ( No. 14 ).
- ↑ Mail.ru Group disconnected from VimpelCom // Kommersant.