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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

(arstechnica.com)
1135 points carride | 1 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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qwe----3 ◴[10 Aug 22 13:35 UTC] No.32411651[source]▶
> over $30,000 for each of those homes to get served

This doesn't seem very efficient to me.

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rvnx ◴[10 Aug 22 13:36 UTC] No.32411670[source]▶
To say the least, it's more about siphoning public taxes
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1. basilgohar ◴[10 Aug 22 14:18 UTC] No.32412395[source]▶
He's actually connecting hundreds of people that otherwise wouldn't have such access to fiber. The big ISPs took WAY more money [0] and delivered less.

[0] https://newnetworks.com/bookofbrokenpromises.htm