Shabbona, IL Mediacom, Syndeo and Conxxus. I guess Frontier might still decide to replace their copper with fiber.
-----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 9:53 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] can a town with 850 population support 3 ISPs Mediacom, Frontier, and Conexxus? -- Mike Hammett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 9:42:25 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] can a town with 850 population support 3 ISPs I should clarify this is not BEAD funded, since Mediacom was already there. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 9:31 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] can a town with 850 population support 3 ISPs Those small towns are probably more about footprint than profit. the short of it is that if providers were footing their own bill this wouldnt happen. but when the dust settles and capitalism restarts, 2 of those 3 will be bought or bankrupt, but even at 300 take distributed evenly at 100 per isp with arpu 40, thats 48000 annual revenue, and we know that arpu will only go up as the capitalists fall. We had incumbent cable co. in the last 2 years 2 other fiber providers built our town, frontier is in process of lashing lines, and a 4th provider is doing the entire rural build (on your dome btw), but will be coming into town when thats done. so podunk il will have 4 fiber, 1 cableco, 2-4 LEO, and 1-3 cellular options (currently TMobile is the only reliable cellular home internet) for 11,015 population over 8.65 sq miles with 4680 homes and 417 businesses Nothing is real man, we are in a fever dream On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM Ken Hohhof < [email protected] > wrote: Incumbent cable company, incumbent FTTH company (aerial, no TV option), and now a second FTTH company (buried). 850 population and <400 houses. They just finished wiring the next town over (population 1400) and built their main line through this town to get there. Is the cost so upfront loaded that an FTTH company can survive with only 100-200 customers? Or is this a fight to the death? The new fiber provider looks to be cheaper than both incumbents. Not crazy cheap, but cheaper. They do offer TV packages, those aren’t so cheap. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
