[onezerozeroone]

Crowdsourceable? If you need a couple thousand users, would it be possible to run a marketing campaign, get pre-purchase commitments of $100-200, and give some rewards to early adopters? If you raise enough funding, you're good, if not, just cancel the campaign.

[burkemw3]

Google Fiber did some variety of this:

> Google Fiber works better when communities are connected together. So we’ve divided Kansas City into small communities we call “fiberhoods.” We’ll install only where there’s enough interest, and we’ll install sooner in fiberhoods where there’s more interest.

https://fiber.googleblog.com/2012/07/how-to-get-google-fiber...

[notyourday]

Google fiber was a flop as those of us who played in the ISP land knew it was going to be.

Being an ISP is running an sewage treatment network. It is not sexy.

[bwl]

fuck it at least I have a gigabit pipe from fios now

[notyourday]

Just don't try to push a gig over it.

[alexeldeib]

I have a gigabit connection, and regularly verify my bandwidth. It's usually not actually in four digits, but I see 800+ megabit on a pretty regular basis.

Admittedly, not FIOS.

[toomuchtodo]

Yes.

https://muninetworks.org/

https://b4rn.org.uk/

https://www.electric.coop/co-op-bringing-fastest-internet-ru...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exq3ne/zen-and-the-art-of...

https://www.google.com/search?q=internet+coop

[zimpenfish]

> b4rn.org.uk

It amuses* me that the rural Northwest and Yorkshire Dales can get orders of magnitude faster yet cheaper broadband than my parents in suburban Manchester.

[danesparza]

This article might give you some inspiration: https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-09/tired-waiting-high-sp...

[tobych]

Sweet. That's from Yes! Magazine, headquartered just up the road from me here on Bainbridge Island, WA.

[dhimes]

I was thinking a co-op but, yeah this.