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how do i becoming a good i.s.p? what are the requirements?

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The original question from drew a mix of answers: some stressed effort and customer service (, ), others noted the need to learn networking basics (, ), and one reply confused ISP work with SEO (). Those are useful points, but they leave out the concrete technical, legal and operational steps an ISP must take. The short checklist below fills that gap and gives practical first actions.

  • Decide the business model: reseller/white‑label, local last‑mile (fiber/fixed wireless), or a business-focused provider. Each has very different capital and regulatory needs.
  • Regulatory and legal: register the company, check telecom and consumer rules in your country, and secure any spectrum or tower permits if you plan wireless.
  • Addressing and routing: plan IPv4/IPv6 addressing and decide whether you need your own ASN and BGP multihoming (regional Internet registries such as ARIN/RIPE/APNIC handle allocations).
  • Upstream and peering: contract transit providers and consider peering at local IXPs to cut latency and cost.
  • Infrastructure and ops: colocate core gear, choose last‑mile tech, build redundancy, and set up a NOC with monitoring and alerting.
  • OSS/BSS: pick systems for billing, provisioning, ticketing and CRM so customers can be onboarded automatically.
  • Security and resilience: DDoS mitigation, backups, incident playbooks, spare CPE stock.
  • Launch plan: pilot in one neighborhood, measure utilization and support load, then iterate before scaling.

Practical cautions: avoid aggressive oversubscription, document SLAs, and plan for 24/7 support. A low‑cost way to start is reselling wholesale access until you can invest in infrastructure. First concrete steps: contact the local telecom regulator, talk to wholesale upstreams, and run a small pilot so technical design and customer workflows are proven before growth.

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Member Avatar for Dani

Not sure what you mean, exactly??

Member Avatar for ayesh19872

with hardworking you may become.

commented: Thanks for this worthless comment. -3
Member Avatar for sarah newton

Becoming an internet service provider is quite simple if you are ready to work hard. The main fundamentals are that you should be willing to serve the audience needs and what they want.

Member Avatar for sarah newton

The aim of such a provider is to get high search engine ranks for the niche and website of any company.

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The aim of such a provider is to get high search engine ranks for the niche and website of any company.

That's the purpose of an SEO. An ISP is an Internet Service Provider, aka the company you pay for Internet access.

Member Avatar for dornaled

yes i agree with you...cscgal...
ISP is an internet services provider.

commented: Brilliant contribution. -3
Member Avatar for andrewjackson1

you want be good for what?? in which feild u want to be good ? plz make it clear first...

Member Avatar for bed in bags

To become good internet service provider you need to fulfill the all requirements of customer related to the internet service. Try to give best services to their customer if your customer are satisfied with your service then I think you are the best Internet service provider.

Member Avatar for pgmco

Study the field and provide good customer service.

Member Avatar for netvani

I do not understand how you connect your thread title to the query you placed here. ISP is the one which let us to access the Internet. And if you are badly aim to put up the same business you have to study more about networking and Internet fundamentals.

Member Avatar for dollyclay

I think your question is not clear...Am not sure what you are asking exactly??

Member Avatar for Maximlis

I also think so. Your question is not clear.

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