Forget Comcast. Here’s a DIY Approach to Internet Access

Re:Forget Comcast. Here’s a DIY Approach to Internet Access by stvswn on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:15PM (#12229115)

24/7 operations team at the NOC. Billing. Collections. Technical support. Physical support. Lawyers. Local easements. Sales and Advertising. Cost of capital. Goes on and on.

If you're a cable company who already built all of that, it's marginally very profitable to layer on internet service.

If you think that you can go run a coax cable to someone's house and start collecting a monthly check from them, and collect routinely, without a) billing issues, b) collections issues, c) service outages, etc. etc. -- I mean, maybe for 3 neighbors it would work. But not at scale.

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Re:Forget Comcast. Here’s a DIY Approach to Internet Access by CyberDildonics on Saturday August 06, 2016 @12:35PM (#12238698)

I think you completely misunderstood my point.

Btw 'at scale' all the overhead you mentioned decreases. I doubt it costs $70 a month per customer. You see issues constantly, but how big is the customer base? 100k? That's 7 million a month. With bandwidth costs of around $1 per person I'm going to guess there is a lot of room for profit.

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