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

(arstechnica.com)
1135 points carride | 2 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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dominotw ◴[10 Aug 22 14:38 UTC] No.32412729[source]▶
Its a misleading title. Govt 'built ISP', this guy led the effort.
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1. treesknees ◴[10 Aug 22 15:32 UTC] No.32413679[source]▶
No you are incorrect. If you read the article and the original article they did in Jan 2021, the original effort was completely funded by him and his neighbors (as in they'd pay $X that will cover future monthly bills later.) This article is about how he has obtained additional government funding to supplement the efforts he was already doing on his own.
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2. dominotw ◴[10 Aug 22 16:54 UTC] No.32415086[source]▶
but i was responding to this

> fiber network that can reach 600 houses

GP wasn't asking about 'original effort' .

Title mentions 'hundreds of homes'