[seiji]

Disclaimer: I used to work at a wireless ISP and I am going to decorate your comment.

Oddly, local government has no say over it. As long as you can legally place antennas and/or dishes in the right spots, you can do whatever you like. You can run on crappy 2.4GHz or 5GHz radios or use more fancy FCC leased spectrum 30GHz-60GHz radios or even line-of-sight optical lasers. You will typically run a 20Mbps to 1Gbps connection to an apartment/condo complex then feed individual units from there (i.e. each customer isn't getting their own wireless connection unless you are a fancy business paying for that level of service).

Big companies don't care much about tiny ISPs here and there. What's more likely is the biggest of the tiny ISPs will buy you to goose their numbers.

If your tiny ISP is aggressive in servicing buildings, you may see Comcast running counter promotions against your pricing. Welcome to the free market.

[talmand]

You know, you are quite right. My thinking with the local government bit is in terms of normal cable service, not this type of wireless service.