Anyone interested in actually doing this may wish to look up Jared Mauch:

* "Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411493

* "NLNOG: Getting Fiber To My Town [video]": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24424910

* "Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband–so he built his own fiber ISP": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25753360

* "How To Create Your Own ISP with Jared Mauch": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJH9Emr99KI