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Isn't this what ISP subscribers are supposed to pay for? How big are the operating margins for major ISPs nowadays?
by meibo 5y ago
Isn't this what ISP subscribers are supposed to pay for? How big are the operating margins for major ISPs nowadays?
- NullPrefix 5y agoNo no, subscribers are supposed to pay and not use what they pay for.
- adventured 5y agoI can't speak to South Korea's ISP market, but in the US the major cable providers are now doing very well. Comcast is at $18b in operating profit, with roughly 18% operating income margins. Charter Communications is at $9.6b in operating income, with 19% operating income margins. Those are the two biggest cable companies in the US. In the early decades of cable, profitability was notoriously flaky for the industry. Enormous amounts of required capital investment, and it took a long time to saturate - scale into - the US market. Now the market is settled and they're printing consistently giant profits. Interestingly Charter has become a giant, worth $133 billion, and Paul Allen used to own a controlling interest in the early incarnation of it. It was part of his so called wired world collection of investments. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/paul-allen-charter-and-what-might-have-been-jon-talton/ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/paul-allen-cha...
- lifthrasiir 5y ago> How big are the operating margins for major ISPs nowadays? In 2020, KT: 1.18 trillion KRW (1.00bn USD), SKT: 1.34 trillion KRW (1.13bn USD), LG U+: 886 billion KRW (749m USD). Their revenues range from 10 to 25 trillion KRW for the reference.