On 5/17/23 12:06 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
On 5/16/23 16:55, Saku Ytti wrote:
I can't tell what large is. But I've worked for enterprise ISP and consumer ISPs, and none of the shops I worked for had capability to monetise information they had. And the information they had was increasingly low resolution. Infraprovider are notoriously bad even monetising their infra.
[ .... ] I tend to agree.
ISP's are, generally, terrible at evolving beyond selling bandwidth.
While there might be some ISP's that are able to monetize the data they collect - to whatever degree that monetization is useful - I'd hazard that the majority don't do this because it requires a different mindset that most ISP's simply don't have.
Mark.
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