I wonder how much the situation is exacerbated by IP address exhaustion. It's practically impossible to start an ISP of you don't already have IPv4 addresses, a

I wonder how much the situation is exacerbated by IP address exhaustion. It's practically impossible to start an ISP of you don't already have IPv4 addresses, and whatever small allocations you might still be able to get won't allow you to grow very large, at least if you want to provide good service.