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Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP?
hawkeyeMI writes "I live in a small, rural town nestled in some low hills. Our town has access to only one DSL provider, and it's pretty terrible. However, a regional fiber project is just being completed, and some of the fiber is in fact running directly past my house. Currently, there are no last-mile providers in my area, and the regional project only considers itself a middle-mile provider, and will only provide service to last-mile providers. Assuming this will not be my day job, that the local populace is rather poor, and that because of the hills, line-of-sight service will be difficult, how could I set myself up as an ISP? I have considered WiFi mesh networking, and even running wires on the power/telephone polls, but the required licensing and other issues are foreign to me. What would you do?"
Leave it to the pros
Become a bundler for Obama, and create a "green" energy business (manufacture solar cells costing $15+ each, to be sold at $3 each is a common one). He will grant you half a billion dollars easily. You can then take the money and immediately go out of business. You now have sufficient funding for your project, or you can just move to somewhere already wired.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
"Connect to the fiber, and use it up for yourself."
The American way! Fuck the poor, that's Socialism!