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> Can you only enter this market with huge capital expenditures to build out a network? It certainly feels that way. Though I believe there is some chance for
by xhrpost 14y ago
> Can you only enter this market with huge capital expenditures to build out a network?
It certainly feels that way. Though I believe there is some chance for bootstrapping, even starting out with an entire apartment signed on would still be difficult. Though it may be enough to spark investor interest.
> Republic Wireless is the only other "similar" product to disrupt the telecom market.
While what they're doing is neat, they're just using someone else's network (Clear) and essentially shuffling expenses around. It's not low-level physical disruption where we need it.
- larrydag 14y ago> essentially shuffling expenses around I think that's a good start. I'm willing to bet low-level disruption could be realized using the existing infrastructure. A one cost, low-monthly rate for ISP and VoIP such as Sonic.net?
- xhrpost 14y ago> using the existing infrastructure I'm not aware of any rules that force cable providers to resell their infrastructure (like Google is doing willing with their fiber). I think, at least at one point, DSL providers had to allow competition using their lines. Sonic.net for a while (and still does to my knowledge) resold DSL and eventually started binding two DSL lines together to increase speeds. They had to pay a hefty amount of their revenue for that customer directly to Ma bell though. For whatever reason, AT&T is not forced to resell their UVerse(VDSL) system. Which maxes out at 24Mbps anyway and thus is already a disappointment for competition. So unfortunately, I'm not seeing any opportunities for disruption with existing infrastructure, at least in the states.