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Solving boring problems that no one else wants to solve because they are too boring is where the market is. I'm actually disappointed that it is "new kind of I
by notyourday 8y ago
Solving boring problems that no one else wants to solve because they are too boring is where the market is.
I'm actually disappointed that it is "new kind of ISP" that made the list rather than just plain "ISP/NSP -- whatever way IP is delivered is fine". Making $10/mo profit in being a dumb pipe with 10 million subscribers in the US is a profit of $100 million in a month while being a a dumb pipe.
- icebraining 8y agoRight, except if you spend $1200/household to connect those users (laying fiber is expensive[1]), you're looking at a decade before your profits actually start coming in. That means a massive initial investment, which needs a corresponding big reward to convince investors. And your non-dumb-pipe competitor will have a greater reward to give them. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/434bwz/how_much_should_a_62_mile_stretch_of_fiber_along/ https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/434bwz/how_much...
- notyourday 8y agoDo it in a boring way - via neighborhoods/groupings and not in a sexy way via point to point fiber everywhere. But even at $1200/household it is peanuts: birds being able to supply a large amount of bandwidth are expensive i.e. trench digging would be be far cheaper than launching and maintaining a pile of birds and earth stations to get even a fraction of that bandwidth magically beamed from above. Edit: Been there - done that. Supplied IP over satellites. CapEx is a very solvable problem. OpEx would kill you.