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Crowdsourceable? If you need a couple thousand users, would it be possible to run a marketing campaign, get pre-purchase commitments of $100-200, and give some
by onezerozeroone 9y ago
Crowdsourceable? If you need a couple thousand users, would it be possible to run a marketing campaign, get pre-purchase commitments of $100-200, and give some rewards to early adopters? If you raise enough funding, you're good, if not, just cancel the campaign.
- dhimes 9y agoI was thinking a co-op but, yeah this.
- danesparza 9y agoThis article might give you some inspiration: https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-09/tired-waiting-high-speed-internet-farm-towns-build-their-own https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-09/tired-waiting-high-sp...
- tobych 9y agoSweet. That's from Yes! Magazine, headquartered just up the road from me here on Bainbridge Island, WA.
- burkemw3 9y agoGoogle Fiber did some variety of this: > Google Fiber works better when communities are connected together. So we’ve divided Kansas City into small communities we call “fiberhoods.” We’ll install only where there’s enough interest, and we’ll install sooner in fiberhoods where there’s more interest. https://fiber.googleblog.com/2012/07/how-to-get-google-fiber.html https://fiber.googleblog.com/2012/07/how-to-get-google-fiber...
- notyourday 9y agoGoogle fiber was a flop as those of us who played in the ISP land knew it was going to be. Being an ISP is running an sewage treatment network. It is not sexy.
- bwl 9y agofuck it at least I have a gigabit pipe from fios now
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- notyourday 9y agoJust don't try to push a gig over it.
- alexeldeib 9y agoI have a gigabit connection, and regularly verify my bandwidth. It's usually not actually in four digits, but I see 800+ megabit on a pretty regular basis. Admittedly, not FIOS.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoYes. https://muninetworks.org/ https://muninetworks.org/ https://b4rn.org.uk/ https://b4rn.org.uk/ https://www.electric.coop/co-op-bringing-fastest-internet-rural-oklahoma/ https://www.electric.coop/co-op-bringing-fastest-internet-ru... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exq3ne/zen-and-the-art-of-internet-maintenance-v23n1 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exq3ne/zen-and-the-art-of... https://www.google.com/search?q=internet+coop https://www.google.com/search?q=internet+coop
- zimpenfish 9y ago> b4rn.org.uk It amuses* me that the rural Northwest and Yorkshire Dales can get orders of magnitude faster yet cheaper broadband than my parents in suburban Manchester.