Yeah, because the only cost in broadband delivery is the undersea fibre??<p>How about the core network? High capacity core routers? Firewalls? Datacentres? Power? Optics? Engineering? Ongoing upkeep? Monitoring? Upstream bandwidth? Interconnects? Peering LAN membership? LIR membership?<p>In many ways their naivety isn&#x27;t too surprising, we started an ISP last year (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telcom.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telcom.io</a>) and the shear scale of the undertaking and costs baffels us everyday!