Can I be my own isp? If yes, why is nobody doing it?

Can I be my own isp? If yes, why is nobody doing it?

Cost of infrastructure

Even if I have only one customer (me)?

No, US telecommunication laws (hence why Net Neutrality was legislated by the FCC) govern how you form and run an ISP. Good luck if you got millions to spend on lawyers and such.

Im yuroopean

Mesh networks are how we take the power back

Then it depends on if you live in socialist-cucked country and how much power the EU has over networks.

If you live in Slav countries, you probably can get away with starting your own thing.

I live in Germany, so I am probably cucked, am I right?

>Germany
God speed user, get rid of Merkel while you still can

I know people did do that in Somalia when it was ruled by Al Shabab, because Al Shabab did not care if people set up their own thing. The only taxes people paid was the zakah (which is 2.5% of all money that is owned for more than one year) so no company tax so they did not care to keep track on companies or what people set up. Which is why Somalia now has the most advanced mobile infrastructure in the whole of Africa.

For example in Egypt it takes 15 years and $100,000 in fees (in addition to bribes) to set up a mobile phone antennae unless you know someone high up in the millitary. Somalia avoided all that nonsense beurocracy and now you can go in the middle of the most isolated place in Somalia and still be able to use a mobile phone.

But as long as you live a place where they collect taxes for it then you can't do much of that.

I actually live in Austria, but there are quite a lot of people that dont know that this country exists. So I cant do anything about her.

1. Get an IPv4 range (you won't, because they're all out, the waiting list is immense, and you don't have the money to pay for membership anyway)
2. Get an AS number (you won't, because you don't have an IPv4 range
3. Convince an ISP to peer with you (they won't, because you don't have an AS number, or anything worth peering)

In theory you can, but in practice not really. You can set up a company, buy server(s) and all other equipment, traffic, ip block from one of the big boys and then just sit in a datacenter and browse Sup Forums on your own private isp, you can also connect cable (or maybe even wireless) from data center to your house but that would be expensive unless you literally live next door

>Get an IPv4 range (you won't, because they're all out, the waiting list is immense, and you don't have the money to pay for membership anyway)

What about ipv6?

neat

Could work, but again: no other ISP is going to peer with you (especially if it's just IPv6)

Put another shrimp on the barbie mate.

The FCC regulates, not legislates.

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Yeah just like the ATF :^)

That's AUSTRALIA you fucking spastic

Austria is Weiner schnitzels and losing wars

Taking the bait this hard

>tfw fucking Somalia has better internet than your country

What's more surprising is why cities don't lay their own fiber as the last mile end point, then contract out a group rate to some ISP who they simply hook into.

If they did that they'd get superior low rates for their residents, and own all the infrastructure themselves which is dirt cheap to install and wire all new buildings with their own fiber. Where I live we are at the mercy of one ISP since they paid to install fiber goddamnit and it's inflated rates + caps galore instead of no monopoly

What's the fucking point if you're gonna need to hook up to another ISP for your uplink???

Yes, someone actually did this. I believe it was a farmer, if I remember correctly. They didn't have any ISPs around them, so they made their own shit.
I don't know if this is true, but the above was done in USA. If it's true, then they may have had complications.

It was actuallly a big story on medium for awhile. Anyone know which?