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.kletni...@vt.edu> To: "Justin Wilson" <li...@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"?