Here is your checklist in descending order of importance:It is a stone cold lock that the success of your new ISP will governed by factors other than technical. Your most important task is to find competent financial and marketing people you can respect and trust. If the market opportunity exists and you find them, you will succeed. If you don't, all the technical excellence in the world won't help you. The road is littered with technically excellent companies that failed.
- market opportunity
- finding the right partners (see below)
- financial
- sales and marketing
- organizational capacity and HR
- legal, regulatory
- capital acquisition
- security
- ...
- ...
- ...
- technical including equipment selection, routing policy, filtering, etc
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:05 AM Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net> wrote:hi there,I know there are folks from lots of small ISPs here and I wanted to check-in on asking few advice points as I am involved building an ISP from green-field.Usually, it's pretty straight forward to cover high-level important things, filters, routing policies, etc.but we all know the devil is in the details.I am putting together a public DOs and DONTs blog post and would love to hear from those who have built ISPs and have recommendations from Billing to Interconnection, Routing policy to Out of the band & console setup, Software recommendations, etc. Bottom line is that I would like to publish a checklist with these recommendations which I hope will be useful for all.thanks in advance for your help and recommendation.Mehmet--Fletcher Kittredge
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