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

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1135 points carride | 2 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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boplicity ◴[10 Aug 22 16:59 UTC] No.32415153[source]▶
He's getting $2.6 million to set up access to 417 homes. That works out to $6,235 per home. At $55 per month, it would take 113 months, or over 9 years just to get $2.6 million in revenue.

Horrible economics! What a crazy business to be in. No wonder grants like this are necessary.

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1. pphysch ◴[10 Aug 22 17:05 UTC] No.32415274[source]▶
Has a road or water line ever paid for itself?
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2. colechristensen ◴[10 Aug 22 17:36 UTC] No.32415718[source]▶
Well the US economy has boomed for the last 250 years or so and depends pretty heavily on roads and thirsty humans. Those investments seem to have given more than they took, by a very wide margin.