Comment by wmchen
17 hours ago
One thing that was always a curious anomaly for me is Brazil having the second largest number of autonomous systems (ASNs) in the world. [1]
I've been told that this is actually because Brazil has a very competitive local ecosystem of small ISPs competing with eachother on the regional scale.
There is federal funding available to finance the connection of underserved areas, specially rural, so the nature of the problem makes it natural to be fragmented. Also considering how bureaucratic Brazil is, most of the red tape was greatly streamlined for small providers.