lets say I had an unlimited bank account and wanted to start my own isp, what would it take and how would I go about it, it wouldent have to be a huge isp just a small one for a set group of people with possibility for expandsion
town, access to that town's infrastructure, servers, routers, modems, switches, probably some sort of agreement with the congress critters to start up. business license. fair bit of software know how. then a backhaul agreement with probably an ISP that is bigger than you until you get large enough to get a deal directly with Tier 1 service providers. probably a lot more but thats about all i can think of
From my experience (im not in sales but have worked in the fiber industry) they get 5-10k a month per wave at 2.5gb thats enough service for a 700-1000 people at 2014 average speeds. You may go dark but this price per gb vs unlimited is usually going to be competitive no matter what your choice is (there is a tipping point for wave service where buying dark is more cost efficient) Multiply that by 12 (months) = 120,000 and then x90 (fiber service is usually 10% of total costs) 1.08 million per 1000 people for installation and equipment costs if they live within a dense environment (square mile). This is just an estimate but I bet im close. There is a lot involved in estimating costs do you go waves do you go dark (they are going to be competitive either way). Every region has different prices and every town costs a different price because they are all unique. I would plus/minus this 50% depending on these variables. This is based on FTTH.
Why cant the US follow Sweden in this regard.
Open fiber, basically its kinda the same as DSL. Once the infrastructure is there then you pick the ISP.
http://www.oppenfiber.se/
US minimum tax rate is 0% Sweden's is 29%. That pretty much sums it up. Fiber for 9.6 million people versus 322 million. Infrastructure for 180,000 sq miles vs 9.8 million sq miles. Majority of the population is in the lower 1/3 of the country. If you take the GDP and give it a per mile value Sweden is 3.11 dollars per sq mile vs the us at 1.66 per sq mile. We would have to restructure our entire tax system to provide this type of service and it would cause a revolution. People in the US don't view tax here like they do in Scandinavia as well as rally racing lol. I may have just wasted 20 minutes of my life is this government funded? O.O
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