Basically it's a reselling system no matter which way you go. You buy access into a bigger ISP's network and then provide services on top of it. If you've got

Basically it's a reselling system no matter which way you go. You buy access into a bigger ISP's network and then provide services on top of it. If you've got a huge wallet you could run your own physical infrastructure but it would be hugely expensive for anything more than a small userbase [1]. If you went that way you'd make peering agreements with your closest internet backbone providers to hook into the rest of the internet (backbone providers being even bigger ISPs than those mentioned earlier, the ISP's ISP if you like) [1] It has been done in the past: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/how-to-start-your-own-isp-699959 http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/how-to-start-your-own...