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There's a little bit of that in there. Surprisingly, in the U.S. at least, there's not much of a gap between being a legal business entity (LLC, corp) and being

There's a little bit of that in there. Surprisingly, in the U.S. at least, there's not much of a gap between being a legal business entity (LLC, corp) and being able to be an ISP. You don't have to log much of anything (unless you're doing voice services as well). You do have to be able to intercept customer traffic without going on site physically in order to comply with law enforcement requests. But as someone who is not a lawyer and has no business giving legal advice the best I can do is suggest that you talk to a real lawyer.

LinuxBender 5y ago
I think it might be useful to have a section that includes anecdotal experiences of existing WISP's of what actions they had to take in their location to cover themselves, what legal challenges they ran into and any caveats or scenarios to be aware of. Obviously with the disclaimer that it is not legal advise and they should retain their own legal council. It might give folks a better picture of what to expect before they consider the investment. For what its worth, I really like the idea of people implementing some options for those that might only have access to one ISP. I was locked into Comcast for the longest time and would have loved to see more options available.
p_l 5y ago
Legal requirements can be funky. Back in ~2007 or so I considered doing my own WISP just to get any reliable internet that wasn't making 300 baud modem look nice (put enough latency on telnet and it will look like that). Turned out that if we wanted to cross a community (smallest administrative region in Poland), to be fully legal we might have had to submit war and disaster preparation plans to Ministry of Defense. For cooperation with military and other services, just in case.