Perhaps it is because peering is not an entitled right. If it was, who would pay for all the costs of network growth?
AFA HE.net pricing, the reality is HE.net does not sell "their" network... they sell other ISPs network via their peering. Their costs are far lower as they don't carry the traffic more than 1-2 router hops.
HE.net does this so much that their peers are feeling that the relationship is no longer "fair" and are not interested in upgrading capacity to enable this business relationship. If HE.net had to pay as much as their peers for the network costs, the prices would be similar.
AFA HE.net pricing, the reality is HE.net does not sell "their" network... they sell other ISPs network via their peering. Their costs are far lower as they don't carry the traffic more than 1-2 router hops.
HE.net does this so much that their peers are feeling that the relationship is no longer "fair" and are not interested in upgrading capacity to enable this business relationship. If HE.net had to pay as much as their peers for the network costs, the prices would be similar.
You get what you pay for....