I have another "can't get broadband" situation. This time, instead of a building practically in the middle of the capital of the United States, at least this is a home in a fairly rural area.

I have a client who lived in this spot, and he has nothing in terms of broadband.

He's much too far for DSL, there's no cable in the ground for a mile or two, and Fios and U-Verse are certainly not there either. He currently has satellite internet, and for $85 a month he has an extremely slow connection with bad latency. He's also an insurance agent with a large company who won't set him up with home office equipment because his connection isn't good enough for their services.

He gets kind of good speeds with a 3G wireless card from Sprint, but it's still not great. I've looked into 4G and none of the carriers can deliver any kind of "4G" speed to his home.

The only possible idea I had left is the possibility of some sort of community broadband setup. There are plenty of other homes in the center of that map that could take advantage of something like this, but I don't even have a clue of where to start. I assume it would be a pretty significant investment that could be split by the homeowners who buy into the plan, but I don't know who I'd talk to to set it up, what kind of legal issues there might be, etc. Does anyone here have any direction they could point me in?