@vriesk @RandomDamage @mathaetaes that's crazy, I have a /27 at home that ATT gives me for $30 😆

We never had issues getting IPs. Even out transit providers would delegate tons of addresses to us. I used to have a /23 at home from Sprint and when we dropped them as a transit provider they never took back their addresses so I kept using them for years. Mostly just enabled them all on my router so they'd respond to pings and appear in use, but... that sounds like massive stupid bureaucracy over there