[ggm]

Customer counts for ISPs worldwide by ASN. There are approximations for some economies, filing for federal regulations and stock exchange notices. There are yearly numbers for broadband which are pretty hazy. I went to a meeting where china declared 160m extra online users had been found that year.

A huge amount of internet modelling and sampling would improve at scale if we knew this. I've discussed this with researchers in the field. Akamai and Google and Facebook have private information which is their secret sauce.

[sampkola]

Can you share a link to one of these filings or notices you are refering to? Or it would be helpful if you share what regulations are typically enforced on ISPs (in your region) and if they publish customer count details to public domain.