In other words, the one who follows Paul Graham says: yes! For Paul wrote: solve hard problems.
Let's get down to the practical.
Laying fiber is expensive you say? What about spacecrafts/sats? Let's phone Elon wether he has time to negotiate a deal…
Recap: 1. Everybody wants Internet. 2. Not everybody (who could pay for it) has it.
Conclusion: there is an opportunity.
You're right, putting communications satellites in orbit will be much cheaper and more accessible to new players.
Re:The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official
by Torwald on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:29AM
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Leasing things that are already up there and have downtime is going to be a future possibility. I don't know about cheap though. No idea. Dynamics like Moores law will make it possible at some point. It's a general hunch.
Re:The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official
by zild3d on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:08PM
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> No. Laying fiber across neighborhoods is extremely expensive.
Which means, yes, it is a perfect opportunity for entrepreneurial activity. Extremely high, prohibitive costs means a new, cheaper, scalable way of doing things would be disruptive and have high reward
Yes, some towns have created their own municipal fiber optic networks, but it's done on a small scale.