The difficulty in creating an ISP is all in the last mile, not in peering.
Where I live there are 100+ ISPs since there's a national fiber network anyone can plug into, so to start an ISP all you need is a router and some peering.
Where I live there are 100+ ISPs since there's a national fiber network anyone can plug into, so to start an ISP all you need is a router and some peering.
Yes, the last mile is the biggest expense, but other costs are not small either. An ISP with a couple of 1000 users are just reselling BW from someone else. They are at the mercy of their upstream's peering. I wasn't referring to them.
I own an ISP outside the developed nation.