In my rural neighborhood (somewhere in the Netherlands) we created a cooperative that will create and manage a fiber network for 5.600 households, spread in a 345,8 km/2 area. The large Telcos are ignoring us, so we have to do it ourselves.
In this area everybody has at least ADSL but speeds range from 2Mbit to 20Mbit. There are also a couple hundred households on Cable (max. 150/20).
With Fiber everybody will get a 100/100 connection for about 50 euros / month. Other packages are available, up tot 500/500.
Even though the people with 20Mbit and up don't complain about their connection a large part of them signed up for Fiber anyway.
Why?
Because we told them that if we fail to build this network, the people with ~2Mbit connections are screwed. Out of solidarity 65% of all households signed up, 2 years before they would be able to get it, resulting in a valid business model for the cooperative.
In this area everybody has at least ADSL but speeds range from 2Mbit to 20Mbit. There are also a couple hundred households on Cable (max. 150/20).
With Fiber everybody will get a 100/100 connection for about 50 euros / month. Other packages are available, up tot 500/500.
Even though the people with 20Mbit and up don't complain about their connection a large part of them signed up for Fiber anyway.
Why?
Because we told them that if we fail to build this network, the people with ~2Mbit connections are screwed. Out of solidarity 65% of all households signed up, 2 years before they would be able to get it, resulting in a valid business model for the cooperative.