> The unstated reason is that indian transit is expensive, though I fail to believe its cheaper to go from mumbai to marsaille and back to mumbai. IMHO, it's n

> The unstated reason is that indian transit is expensive, though I fail to believe its cheaper to go from mumbai to marsaille and back to mumbai. IMHO, it's not that hard to believe. a) Every hosting provider I've looked at prices for charges significantly more for bandwidth from their Indian locations. b) In the US, transit providers basically never charged different rates for different destinations [1]. In Europe, it's typically rare, sometimes transit to the local incumbent telecom is more, sometimes there's a different rate for Europe or non-Europe, but there won't be a specific destination charge for India, it will be part of a blended rate. Otoh, east Asia often has separate rates for specific nearby countries and India is likely to be one of those... Transit prices in Europe are pretty low compared to prices in India, so the blended price being less than the India direct price is not surprising to me at all. [1] gcp premium does charge by destination, but the premium transit price is pretty close to their price for cross location traffic to something near the destination + non-premium traffic from that location... Which is more or less what their premium network egress is.