In my city, actually 2 different ISPs were started by a bunch of hackers trying to provider better internet for their own peers. It seems to be at least not impossible to do so.
Good one. If you are lucky enough to be in a city. The majority of the cabling and infrasturcure was built by the Deutsche Post, when it was still government-owned. Now nearly all of that belongs to the Telekom, which have a massive tmonopoly, even though they have to rent their cabling too other companys for a low price. Problem is, there are very low infrastructure costs for everyone at the moment, leading to a very very fierce price battle at the internet market, which leaves no money for improvements of the infrastructure.
In short, in Germany many people skipped from Modem/ISDN to LTE because they had no other choice for 15 years than to stay with Dial up connections.
