Startups, people serving areas where there aren't a ton of people, etc. I'm sure they'd love to have /24s, but ARIN is out of them and the market is too pricey for most of these guys. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "valdis kletnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> To: "Justin Wilson" <lists@mtin.net> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 4:51:20 PM Subject: Re: IPv4 smaller than /24 leasing? On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:40:27 -0500, Justin Wilson said:
I know of dozens, if not hundreds of small ISPs that can’t participate in BGP because they don’t have big enough blocks.
What's the business model, if you have less than 120 customers? Selling value-add services on top of moving the packets? Or just be in a country where cost-of-everything is so cheap that you can make a profit on 120 customers at $20/mo? And hundreds? Is that "in the US", or "worldwide"?