To start a WISP or ISP is going to take a few million and with the credit disaster.... They are not going to be able to get much money to start an ISP/WISP etc... Especially when it is going to take a LOT of rollout to get to a few customers. If it was fairly easy and profitable - a company would have done this already or Verizon would not have left...
Except you are talking about a larger range than a neighborhood and assume that they can get a fast connection to feed the WISP - something the area specifically seems to be lacking. If you can't get a fast connection to feed the WISP - then you are seriously limiting how many can connect and the area of country is fairly well known for being - rather isolated.
Again - if it was cheap enough and could make money then Verizon would not have packed the bags and other companies would be biting at the bit to get in on the goodness.
It is cheap enough to do. Its called you expand when you have the customers and the money to do so. You just don't start out nationwide over night-unless you resell DSL from DSL Extreme.
And why can't you get a fast connection to the 'Net from a Telco and a decent price? its called DON'T order from the ILEC.
But then again. another person that wants to bitch about their services without doing anything about it. When they could get their neighbors together and pipe in a couple T1s to share.
OH! and ATT does wireless. In AK. Why does everything have to be about VZ not doing something. OH and why would they want to do WISP services when they can rely on VZW to take that 5gig cap of EVDO service so you can go over and end up with a few thousand dollar cell phone bill.
I never said national now did I? Nope I did not but you insinuate I did. What ever.. If it is so easy and cheap I am sure you can make a killing since you have the know how - be an instant success in the specific part of the country this refers to.
Why? My area has great service. We actually have a family that cares about what we want. They make headlines here but only if the customers send it in. Why? Cause Karl only cares about FiOS, AT$T and saying how terrible Comcast is or ranting about one of their contractors and their services for the day.
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