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What resources can I follow to start a non-profit ISP? I want to start one in my hometown for students who couldn't afford internet to join online classes.

• q3k 6y ago
  There's a bunch of guidelines for starting a (W)ISP depending on your region.
  • akritrime 6y ago
    I actually tried, but all I got was some consultancy services that would help you get an ISP with estimated cost of 10k USD (a middle class household earns half of that in a year here).
    • walrus01 6y ago
      http://wndw.net/book.html http://wndw.net/book.html
• dboreham 6y ago
  Why not just raise money to pay for service from for-profit providers? Much more efficient use of donation funds.
  • akritrime 6y ago
    Hmm, I actually didn't think about that at all. I guess I got too fascinated by this video[0] and wanted to apply something similar to our current scenario. [0]: https://youtu.be/lEplzHraw3c https://youtu.be/lEplzHraw3c
  • mschuster91 6y ago
    Because often enough there is only one dominant service in the region who has no pressure to compete from anyone due to regulatory capture (esp. regarding right of way on utility poles) and so has no incentive to upgrade their offers to the customers.
• odensc 6y ago
  https://startyourownisp.com/ https://startyourownisp.com/
• walrus01 6y ago
  If you intend to start a facilities-based last mile access ISP, what last-mile tech do you intend to use? There's a number of resources out there for people who want to be a small hyper local WISP. But I would not recommend it unless you have 10+ years of real world network engineering experience at other, larger ISPs.