In Virginia, Delivering Broadband To the Customers Big Telecom Forgot

cheezitmike writes "A Washington Post story tells how former automotive engineer Paul Conlin just wanted to get broadband at his rural home in Fauquier County, Virginia, and ended up forming his own wireless ISP: 'Paul Conlin, the proprietor of Blaze Broadband, is not a typical telecom executive. He drives a red pickup and climbs roofs. When customers call tech support, he is the one who answers. Conlin delivers broadband to Fauquier County homes bypassed by Comcast and Verizon, bouncing wireless signals from antennas on barns, silos, water towers and cellphone poles.'"

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Been doing this since 2004

[pcjunky]

Climb roofs and towers, run cables mount radios, answer tech support phone calls...done it all.

Hard way to make a living, but very grateful customers. Two other WISPs in town could not make it.

Re:there are no monopolies

[houghi]

won't post their prices, because they're not anywhere near competitive.

I would say they ARE competitive.

A guy walks into a store and asks what the price for potatoes is. 2,50EUR a kilo. "That is crazy, the store around the corner only ask 25 cents a kilo".
+ "Go buy there", says the store owner.
- "They don't have anything left"
+ That's just crazy If I don't have anything left, my prices drop to 15 cents per kilo