I once researched trying to set up an ISP in Juneau, Alaska, and an ISDN line from Seattle, Washington was going to cost me over $2500 a week.  This was around the &quot;Dawn of the Broadband Age&quot;, too.<p>While that only comes to 10k a month, the connection would have gone over existing fiber cables.  I can see where a custom installed point-to-point might run that high.