[6342] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: national stats. on ISP qty/size?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Nov 28 13:59:19 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:54:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
>Anyone know where I can find aprox. stats. on number and
>size of ISP's in north america? Is this presently tracked
>(guessed at?) anywhere?
Depends on what kind of "ISP" you are interested in. For dialup,
Boardwatch Magazine <http://www.boardwatch.com> has a quarterly
listing of Internet providers. If you think the Internet is more
than just dialup, I suggest looking at some more sources.
The Maloff Company <http://www.maloff.com/> has lots of good, but
now out-of-date (February 1996 is ancient for the Internet) information
in their report on the Internet marketplace. For information on how
part of the non-profit Internet Providers are doing, the 1996 study
on libraries and the Internet released this Fall is a good starting place
<http://istweb.syr.edu/Project/Faculty/McClure-NSPL96/NSPL96_T.html>.
Things are both better, and worse than you've read in the popular
press.
The traditional thinktanks, the Gartner Group, Forrester Research, etc,
also have a number of studies of the Internet, but I can never afford to
even look at their catalog.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
