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No. Laying fiber across neighborhoods is extremely expensive. The investment required is so astronomical that even Google stepped out of the game.

Yes, some towns have created their own municipal fiber optic networks, but it's done on a small scale.




In other words, the one who follows Paul Graham says: yes! For Paul wrote: solve hard problems.

Let's get down to the practical.

Laying fiber is expensive you say? What about spacecrafts/sats? Let's phone Elon wether he has time to negotiate a deal…

Recap: 1. Everybody wants Internet. 2. Not everybody (who could pay for it) has it.

Conclusion: there is an opportunity.


You're right, putting communications satellites in orbit will be much cheaper and more accessible to new players.


Leasing things that are already up there and have downtime is going to be a future possibility. I don't know about cheap though. No idea. Dynamics like Moores law will make it possible at some point. It's a general hunch.


> No. Laying fiber across neighborhoods is extremely expensive.

Which means, yes, it is a perfect opportunity for entrepreneurial activity. Extremely high, prohibitive costs means a new, cheaper, scalable way of doing things would be disruptive and have high reward




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