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Aggressively throttling comments. I think it's about five comments and then HN cuts you off from commenting. Not really conducive to discussions.

So what's stopping you? :) Just get some neighbors together and go for it.

Manhattan?

Title III crowdfunding is limited to $1M.

What happened to Citynet? They were supposed to wire the whole of Amsterdam with open access fiber. Did they stop after the Reggefiber/KPN acquisition?

"A little longer" == 25 years if your returns are 10% and grow 10% annually. Other than than all true. Telecoms infrastructure is an utility play, steady long term returns. Somethi…

No, the returns aren't there to make infrastructure investments attractive to VCs. A software startup can exit at 10x, an infrastructure investment won't.

> However, from my understanding, a direct connection to the internet backbone is what gives tier q ISP's their God-like monopolizing power in a given region (like Comcast in most …

How are you covering costs?

A Netflix cache appliance isn't dependent on the number of customers, it's on dependent on the amount of traffic from Netflix. You don't need 5000 Netflix customers, you need 5 Gbp…

Even a single cable in the sewer can require digging up the street if the cable causes an obstruction in the pipe.

Rule #1: Never install new copper in the outside plan. That being said, there are companies specializing in installing fiber cables into sewers. They use tracked robots to install …

I recall the NYCmesh people having free bandwidth from an employer or sponsor. That obviously helps. Not exactly scalable or replicable tho.

Anybody with enough money can connect to one or more IP transit providers ("the Internet backbone"). It will usually set you back a few thousand dollars per month.

> Fiber like GPON is shared physically-ish, but DWDM isolates individual waves so thoroughly that it's hard to think of that as a shared physical medium unless you're thinking abou…

Your numbers are way off. In 2006, Verizon's cost to pass a property was $850 and trending towards $700 in 2010. This includes not only the outside plant, but also the OLTs. The ma…

No, if you wanted "fair pricing" you'd have congestion pricing. Hard data caps are just a way of bilking the subscribers for more money.

OLTs aren't that expensive, especially since you can potentially split the costs of each port over 128 subscribers. Obviously the total dollar costs add up when you put thousands o…

Unless you compare the latency to a live broadcast, you'll never know how bad the latency is. Most P2P systems are terrible, which makes them pretty useless since you can hear who …

Like I wrote in the grandparent, it's a density thing. How many subscribers have line of sight (or close enough) for the 5G small cell to work? At some point it's going to be more …

What's the latency like? Live broadcasts are hard enough to keep realtime without mixing in P2P problems like buffering and limited upstreams.

While technically feasible, content owners won't allow it, so it's a moot point.

5G might end up cheaper than FTTP, but I wouldn't get my hopes up on it being massively cheaper. Higher frequencies will require either line of sight or very short distances to the…

5G networks require lots and lots of fiber. This means a lot of digging is required.

Yes. With the usual caveats.