Ask About Setting Up a Community ISP

Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @04:00AM from the advice-from-someone-who's-already-done-it dept.

The Ruby Ranch Internet Cooperative (RRIC) is one of the best-known member-owned ISPs around. It provides DSL service to the Ruby Ranch neighborhood in Summit County, Colorado. Carl Oppedahl, the RRIC "main man," has agreed to answer Slashdot questions about the possibilities and pitfalls of setting up something similar in other areas. Please read the RRIC FAQs before posting a question so that you don't ask something Carl has already answered a million times. Otherwise, the usual Slashdot interview rules apply: One question per post, we'll email Carl 10 of the highest-moderated questions, and post his answers as soon as he gets them back to us.

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Competition. by Irvu · 2002-08-20 04:22 · Score: 1, Redundant

This Slashdot article on Starbucks and the local coop sort of brings up the point that I wanted to ask about; Competition.

Have you faced any stiff, or just plain mean, competition from groups like Quest or do you expect to do so in the future. Are you worried that someone (quest, AOL, etc.) will decide to come in and stomp you in some way or are they simply uninterested in your local area?

Irvu.