IT Professionals

Start Your Own ISP?

Posted by on Apr 4, 2006 | 2 Comments

While I may not fall into this category any longer, not too long back I thought it might be interesting to start-up and create my very own ISP. Not one that is based on dial-up access or even wires for that matter. No, rather one that would give my hometown a true competitive city wide wireless access option.

As reality set in and the regulations plus cost became self evident, that dream was quickly swept under the imaginary rug. As things stand today, there is a company that has managed to fill this need – although you never hear about them anywhere in the media for some reason?

But what about those of you who live in an area not yet touched by broadband? Is this something that needs to be looked into? Are you left with Satellite and dial-up Internet as your only viable options? If you can say yes to any of the above, then maybe this idea of starting up a Wireless ISP in your town is not all that harebrained after all?

Getting some information:
Below are some resources that I have come across in my research. Some of books and others are links to helpful articles. With any luck, you will find some resources to explore the possibility of starting up an ISP of your very own.

The ISP Business-

Building Wireless Community Networks (book)-

Cisco ISP Essentials (book)-

[tags]wireless,isp,resources,satellite,dial-up internet[/tags]

  • Mark Push

    Wireless is diffucult to deploy city wide. What might be a though is simply deploying your own apartment complex wide or office wide wireless network and either charge by the user or charge the property owner for building the network. This by the way, is a very simple network.

    Also, for those of you who may be looking to simply start your own ISP (broadband DSL) have a look at http://www.xilabroadband.com. So far Xila represents the easiest solutions I’ve found.

  • http://duchebagz.com Bohrisch11B

    I recently got out of the military after returning home from my second tour. The wife wanted to move to a somewhat remote area and there is no “HighSpeed / Broadband” Internet out here. There is a satellite company that offers internet but its limited to how much you can use per month as well as how fast you can have. There is also AT&T internet but its not quite fast enough for some people and EVERYONE hates having to use it because of AT&T’s customer service issues.
    MY QUESTION is… what would it take to bring “Broadband / High Speed” internet out here… where are some places online and keywords that I could use to find how this process is done if I was looking to start up my own company for this county and the surrounding area.
    Thank you for your time.