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'm sure do monetise. But generally service providers are not interesting or have active shareholders, so very little pressure to make more money, hence firesales happen all the time due infrastructure increasingly seen as a liability, not an asset. They are generally boring companies and internally no one has incentive to monetise data, as it wouldn't improve their personal compensation. And regulations like GDPR create problems people rather not solve, unless pressured.
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.