What would be the problems associated with starting our own cell phone company?

[Th1onein]

One that couldn't be tapped into by the state?

[treestar]

1. None.

Capital would be the biggest issue.

[Shivering Jemmy]

2. Capital

Can you get financial backers?

[TheKentuckian]

3. Many billions of dollars and then the "Just us" department would still demand everything be turned

over/they be granted access/they just hack in and take what they want while they have every alphabet soup bring their various pressures to bear on the situation and all the sudden the FCC doesn't grant permits and bands needed, there are tax questions, labor problems, issues with disposal, etc.

[Th1onein]

4. Right, but that would be a start up. What if we invested in one that already exists?

[TheKentuckian]

10. Then the present warrants would still apply and they keep taking what they want

Also, this would be even more expensive. You'd have to go with a biggie, the small outfits have their own branding but piggyback on larger networks for actual infrastructure.

I think the sale would require FCC approval as well.

We aren't going to end around this, it must be confronted directly new ownership of an existing carrier or even the creation of a new network would be subject to the same paradigm.

The only real difference is the company would have standing to fight a ruling and I assume the ownership would welcome that fight rather than meekly complying without a hassle.

[KurtNYC]

5. Billions for infra structure, government issued licenses to use "public" bandwidth

and then, look what happened to the CEO of Qwest when he wouldn't play ball:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6

[NaturalHigh]

6. Kicking this thread...

just because I like the way you think. I agree with some of the other posters that capital will be a huge problem. If you ever make a go of it, though, I'll be one of your first investors.

[Th1onein]

8. Thanks, NaturalHigh.

I have a real independent streak running through me.

[1-Old-Man]

7. All it would take is enforced laws to stop the tapping.

You don't need to build another cell phone company, what you need to do is stop the state from spying on its citizens. Throw the entire upper echelon of the NSA into prison and the snooping will stop in a heartbeat.

[Th1onein]

9. Do you really think that will ever happen, 1-Old-Man?