An entrepreneur has been awarded £2.1million to extend the broadband ISP he set up from his own back garden. Jared Mauch, from the US, built his own fibre broadband provider after Comcast tried to charge him £40,000 to expand their Internet access to his home.
Tired of rip-off rates and snail-pace internet speeds of 1.5Mbps, the network architect started building the ISP (Internet Service Provider) on his property roughly five years ago. Since connecting around 70 of his rural neighbours to his provider last year, he has now been awarded millions of dollars in grant money to hook up a further 600 homes.
His company started small with just one customer - himself - but soon took off as his eager neighbours signed up. Mauch is now planning to extend his network with an extra 38 miles of fibre broadband, the Daily Star reports.
