| Sure! I saw startyourownisp.com on HN years ago, and once I moved here I remembered that starting an ISP was actually a thing. I started a wireless ISP (WISP). The rough process is: - Find the customers* - Find somewhere to broadcast from* - Find a wholesale fibre provider* - Register with your country's regulator & read a bunch of laws - While you are doing the above, learn about networking. Get this right before you launch, then forgot about it. Post-launch all problems will (hopefully) be non-tech related. And also lots of good old-fashioned business cash-flow spreadsheets. I really like enjoy it (even though it can be stressful) because: - I like geekery - I like business (even thought it can be stressful) - I like being in nature, and this one of the few lines of work that combines the OSI model & chainsaws. - I like having a reason to meet people in my area. Great way to make friends. - This area really needs it. There is fibre in the villages, but lots of people live & work on remote patches of land. The service I provide really makes a difference to their lives. It don't think it'll necessarily make you rich, but it may give you a meaningful livelihood if you have the market for such a service. * You kinda need to do these three simultaneously, because they all need to be in the same location. At some point I just had to commit to one of the three and hope that everything else fell into place. |