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Is this an opportunity for an entrepreneur? Just asking, because, you know, what site is this?
by Torwald 8y ago
Is this an opportunity for an entrepreneur?
Just asking, because, you know, what site is this?
- Sohcahtoa82 8y agoNo. Laying fiber across neighborhoods is extremely expensive. The investment required is so astronomical that even Google stepped out of the game. Yes, some towns have created their own municipal fiber optic networks, but it's done on a small scale.
- Torwald 8y agoIn 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.
- sullyj3 8y agoYou're right, putting communications satellites in orbit will be much cheaper and more accessible to new players.
- Torwald 8y agoLeasing 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.
- zild3d 8y ago> 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
- mmcconnell1618 8y agoIsn't SpaceX planning a couple thousand low orbit satellites to provide internet access? Musk might already be 5 steps ahead of the ISP monopolies.
- a_lifters_life 8y agoWhat about mesh networks?