Point to point wireless is an underappreciated tool. Building a tower half a mile away and pointing a hundred small dishes individually at various customers wi

Point to point wireless is an underappreciated tool. Building a tower half a mile away and pointing a hundred small dishes individually at various customers with their own dishes pointed at the tower, might be cheaper than running fiber to a hundred spread-out houses. Assuming no coordination problems. You just need a lot of extra signal slack built into the system if you want it resilient to weather.