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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: 0.204s | source
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brentm ◴[10 Aug 22 14:20 UTC] No.32412425[source]▶
This seems like a fun project to work on but what is the financial game here? Does he invest in building the network, operate at a loss and then sell to someone like Comcast? I assume building a remote fiber network that can reach 600 houses has to incur huge CapEx (way more than $2.6M right?) and at $50/mo a very long payback period.

However it works, pretty awesome project, kudos.

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1. jbverschoor ◴[10 Aug 22 15:02 UTC] No.32413177[source]▶
People in tech tend to forget that proper tech doesn't actually need 100s of engineers to keep it operational. That's the whole point of a computer. It does what you programmed it to do, and it does so automatically.