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Starting a Cable Company?

Posted by Cliff on from the if-you-want-something-done-right... dept.

prec asks: "One of my goals for my post-university life is to start my own High Speed Internet provider. The plan is to find a decent sized residential area that does not currently have such a service available and start my business there. However, one major problem presents itself - How in the world could I start my own cable company? Would I actually have to lay my own cable lines and everything or do the big companies (such as Comcast) have services set up for people to start their own 'Comcast Franchise' type businesses? All feedback is appreciated."

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  1. Starting a Cable Company? by Jonny+290 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dear Slashdot:

    I like to pose bullshit geeky questions to tech websites. Some call me a troll. I'd like to use the change I find in my couch cushions to start up a cable company. Now that I've graduated ITT Tech, I know all there is to know about technology. Fortunately I have absolutely no concept as to how a business is run, let alone a multi-billion-dollar media business, but was hoping that some Slashdot reader has started a cable company (Ted Turner, you're on my Foes list! :) :) :) ) and can tell me how to do everything!

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  2. Suggestions for your Terms of Service by orangesquid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you start a cable company, *please* let home users run web servers, peer to peer, etc., without griping. (You can always get some linux boxes to do Quality-of-Service routing, and put things like peer to peer and customer port 80 connections in the low priority partition or something.) Also, Don't send the Feds after people who uncap their modems (fix your SNMP system, dammit! also cap at the router! etc.) And don't put ridiculously low upload caps on (10k? Man, I could do better with two 57.6k modems!) Don't forget that you're just an ISP, not the network police! Your job is mostly to make sure things get from point A to point B on time without getting lost.

    That's my 2pence, anyway. [Stupid Comcast.]

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  3. Re:WiFi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I agree.

    Cable is going to be a lot of work, and I think wireless networks are going to be the future anyhow. Buy bandwidth from someone, setup wireless access points, sell access. Cut some people price breaks for installing access points on their property.