This is _exactly_ was I was thinking of organizing for a small rural forest town in N. California. I'd become a small ISP for the town. Maybe I could get a grant. I wasn't looking forward to customer complaints, but I think I could have done good for the town.
However, with Starlink almost imminent, this sort of capital outlay and risk doesn't seem like a good idea. Starlink, ideally, will give reasonable bandwidth with little physical infrastructure, to places which have no other service or cell other than Hugesnet.
However, with Starlink almost imminent, this sort of capital outlay and risk doesn't seem like a good idea. Starlink, ideally, will give reasonable bandwidth with little physical infrastructure, to places which have no other service or cell other than Hugesnet.