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Head for the Hills, We Don't Need No Stinkin' Telco (#409)
Posted: 8/14/2002; 9:08 AM by Terry Frazier
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Something to keep in mind when I move to my bunker in the mountains. Maybe I don't have to worry about whether or not the telcos serve my remote outpost anymore if I can get a few like-minded neighbors together. I already have a friend in Dallas who's spent the last five years doing high-speed spread-spectrum wireless for commercial networks. He says it isn't that hard or that expensive. Throw in a little Wi-Fi and who knows...
Do It Yourself DSL.

An article from Business 2.0 about a small town who got fed up waiting for the telcos to offer broadband in their community:

Oppedahl and about a dozen of his neighbors bought it last year for approximately $5,000. Then they scooped up cable modems, routers, and other equipment (usually for pennies on the dollar on eBay) and spent the past 10 months setting up the first subscriber-owned DSL co-op in America. While it all might seem unremarkable to outsiders -- it serves 12 homes at average DSL data speeds -- it does offer a compelling script for rural towns that don't want to wait until the next ice age to join the 21st century.

This isn't unlike the UTOPIA project in spirit, although UTOPIA is somewhat larger in scale (500,000 end users). [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]
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