Executive Summary

Many apartment renters—an addressable base of roughly 44 million households that collectively spend about $32.0B per year on internet ($60/month on average)—experience inconsistent, high-latency upstream performance and oversubscribed shared connections that frustrate remote workers, streamers, and small businesses operating from home. Property owners also face churn and lower amenity value because standard ISP offerings rarely deliver symmetrical, low-latency service that tenants increasingly demand. A realistic product is a building-level wired network: owner-financed or resident-coordinated installs of private fiber or an open-access backbone, with symmetrical speed tiers and an internal SLA that guarantees low intra-building latency and predictable upstream performance. You would sell to either landlords as an amenity or directly to resident co-ops, offer wholesale access to multiple ISPs, and monetize via a mix of installation fees, recurring access/subscription revenue, and value-added managed services. This market looks timely—our market score is 92/100 and revenue potential 88/100—because remote work and cloud collaboration are driving steady growth in upload and latency needs, private fiber and open-access deployment models are lowering build friction, and resident-driven procurement is making building-level buys more feasible. The chief advantages are predictable unit economics in multi-dwelling buildings and differentiation through enforceable SLAs and multi-ISP neutrality, while the chief challenges are upfront capex, permitting and pole/duct access, incumbent ISP pushback, and the sales friction of convincing either owners or resident groups to commit.

Market Opportunity

Reliable low‑latency wired internet for apartments via building-level installs targets a $32.0B = 44M renter households x $60/mo average internet spend x 12 months total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 7% CAGR broadband & managed home networking spend.

Key trends driving demand: Remote work & cloud collaboration -- rising upload/latency needs push tenants to seek symmetrical low-latency connections.; Private fiber & open-access models -- more private fiber builders target MDUs, lowering deployment friction.; Resident-driven procurement -- residents increasingly crowdsource/coop purchases, enabling building-level buys.; AI/GIS planning -- automated feasibility reduces time/cost to identify candidate buildings and optimal routes..

Key competitors include Starry, Charter / Spectrum, Verizon 5G Home, SiFi Networks, Starlink (SpaceX).

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Reliable low‑latency wired internet for apartments via building-level installs

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