Genachowski Hypes North Carolina Broadband Backwater > Start your own

If an area demands services that are not available, someone will start their own ISP and provide those services.

If the law permits.

Yeah, someone will start their own! Oh, except for those pesky rules that AT&T and others put in place making it all but impossible to do just that and start your own....rules which AT&T did not follow when they started

What rules where?

To start a phone / Internet company delivering wired service to a home?

Lets see ... pole attachment is controlled by the FCC, but attachment rates can be controlled by a state. Kentucky controls pole attachment rates. See - »transition.fcc.gov/eb/Public_Not···3A1.html

As of January 17, 2013 the rights of Cable TV and Internet providers to attach wire to telephone poles is unclear in portions of Kentucky. See - psc.ky.gov/order_vault/Orders_2013/201200544_01172013.pdf

CATV providers have to comply with state law, and obtain an exclusive license from a local community to operate. After meeting all the requirements for cable TV, they still can't attach wire to many poles.

Of the poles you may be able to attach to (assuming the owner of the poles is persuaded by your pitch, and agrees with you there is spare capacity), the rate in Kentucky for a non-regulated pole per year would be $13.86 to $21.64 - »www.kycable.com/blog/fair-and-re···kentucky

You'll have to decide if your service is a cable TV provider (all areas to obtain a permit to start a cable TV service are locked up in Kentucky, unless the state somehow grows, there is no opportunity to offer cable TV), or you could decide to become an ILEC. This requires lots of filings with the FCC and Kentucky, you'll need to buy out an ILEC, or find an area in Kentucky where there is no ILEC (note at this time there is no area).

If you want to just provide Internet service, then you are unregulated. And nobody is or has to be your friend. »law.justia.com/codes/kentucky/20···278-540/

Good luck hanging wires off telephone poles. Note even if you obtain permission from the pole owner, that doesn't mean you obtained permission for the right of way from property owners over which your wires will be run (unless you are a utility, meaning a telephone company or cable TV company recognized by the state or an electric utility).

If you become a CLEC, you are afforded the same rights as an ILEC. ROW, poles, everything. That said, you don't even have to do that. A lot of fiber is built around here without any formal licensing. You only need the permission of the ROW owner.

said by johan_hammy
This would be the very first time I've heard of a CLEC not having the same rights as an ILEC, aside of must provide, USF, etc.

»www.americanclec.com/

Those guys can help you become a CLEC and are based out of Kentucky. I know of another ISP that became a CLEC in Kentucky.

»www.rinioneil.com/
»www.lokt.net/
»www.lermansenter.com/

All very good organizations to work with.

www.wispa.org
www.fispa.org
[/BQUOTE :

GO FOR IT!!! SET UP THAT CHEAP $10 a month gigabit Internet service provider with universal access in Kentucky. Make a billionaire out of yourself with $200 seed capital!

If were possible, there would be many companies with wire along our poles. In my community it's Comcast, AT&T and the electric company.
--
Congress could mess up a one piece jigsaw puzzle.

It is certainly possible and not that difficult to be an ISP anywhere in the United States. What is difficult is providing people the services they think they need for the prices they think they need them at.

Very few people today need more than 25 megabit/s of Internet. There just isn't much advantage to it.

Sell them 25 megabit for $60 and they'll complain it isn't 50 megabit for $45. There just is no way to win.

I agree with this a lot. I'm actually working with Karl to get some articles up from the independent ISP's perspective.