I feel you. I started a small ISP in Montana a few years ago. We're getting into laying our own duct and fiber.
Once I get the machine running, I want to focus on providing tools and information to others looking to do the same thing.
I've been running a Slack channel called ISP School for about a year now to bring together other interested people. Email me at matt@tsi.io if anybody wants an invitation.
that's easy -- de-privatize the last mile access networks. run (copious strand count) fiber to everything, lease at standard pricing for every entrant, with operations & maintenance (and plant depreciation) built in.
I think the hardest thing about a municipal network like that is having a government organization competent in managing it. Streets are still mostly functional with potholes, but a network certainly isn't.
We're operating on a brand new municipal network right now and it's not awesome. In an effort to be fair to all parties, no one is actually in charge. The network operator is separate from the construction contractor who is separate from the bandwidth providers. It's extremely frustrating.
trafficlight|8 years ago
Once I get the machine running, I want to focus on providing tools and information to others looking to do the same thing.
I've been running a Slack channel called ISP School for about a year now to bring together other interested people. Email me at matt@tsi.io if anybody wants an invitation.
pyvpx|8 years ago
pyvpx|8 years ago
done.
trafficlight|8 years ago
We're operating on a brand new municipal network right now and it's not awesome. In an effort to be fair to all parties, no one is actually in charge. The network operator is separate from the construction contractor who is separate from the bandwidth providers. It's extremely frustrating.
rhino369|8 years ago
It was the monopoly power of AT&T that got them phone lines in the first place.