now I may have a naive view on this or maybe I'm missing a technicality...
Would it not be possible for a community raise funds, employ contractors to lay a fibre network and then wholesale the use of the fibre out to the usual ISPs?
Now obviously there is always going to be an issue around raising the funds, but i can think of several south island areas that dont appear on any planned rollout maps yet but have plenty of wealth and big enough businesses.
There is apparently plenty of money to be made doing this kind of thing given the number of smaller names now installing fibre in unserviced areas, obviously the areas not yet covered are the less profitable areas but i would assume that it would just be a longer term return on investment.
Am I oversimplifying the situation? Would the bigger ISPs not want to use a community network?