US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP

Comcast et al have taken (literal) billions of public dollars to expand rural broadband service.

Instead of laying fiber, they used that money to change the definition of broadband.

If corporations are people we need to be able to institute the death penalty for them too.

Good. Now expand to the rest of the world. Comcast and their partners are everywhere, and they all suck.

Running fiber for a small installation kind of warms the heart.

I wonder if some big ISP will roll in there find their IP blocks and start throwing copyright claims at them. Bury them in legal fees than buy them out for a pittance.

God bless em.

Fiber of course is preferable, but requires a lot of knowledge and up front investment to lay. In Philadelphia there's a WISP - wireless internet service provider - that has their equipment up on a tower and can service a particular neighborhood: https://phillywisper.net/

I was ready to use them but our apartment building had made a fucking exclusive agreement with Comcast. If we lived in a normal house at that same address we could have got FIOS or PhillyWisper.