It's not an easy business. We started a dialup/hosting business in 94 when customers ran to us and it still had plenty of work before we quit our day jobs. My biggest concern these days would be the politics and expense of last mile connections. Wireless has many advantages there.
Call me jaded but I wouldn't try anything beyond subsidizing my own connection without very deep pockets and a solid exit plan.
Then again, that's my "been there" head talking. I've been away from operations for a couple years. Perhaps Bendsley has more recent and optimistic thoughts?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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