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Roshan Nath Story — How a Student Built his own ISP in Rural Assam

Roshan Nath grew up in Lala Bazar, a small town in Assam where fast internet wasn’t just rare it was almost mythical. When COVID hit and everything moved online, he suddenly found himself attending classes on a connection that collapsed whenever it wanted. Buffering wasn’t an inconvenience; it was a wall. Then one day, BSNL launched AirFiber in his area. Roshan immediately signed up and became the first person in his entire locality to get it. For the first time in his life, he watched an online class without a frozen screen and it felt like magic.

But that magic didn’t last.
The connection dropped 2–3 times a week. Fiber cuts. Power issues. Uplink failures. And not a single local vendor who understood how to configure the MikroTik-powered unit BSNL had installed. The speed was there, but the stability wasn’t. It was like being handed a Ferrari with a fuel tank that leaked

Now, most people would’ve complained. Or waited. Or accepted it.
Roshan didn’t.

When the BSNL technicians installed his AirFiber, he quietly recorded the entire setup process on his phone. Weeks later, when he accidentally reset his router and all hell broke loose, he pulled out that recording and configured the entire thing himself step by step. And that tiny act flipped a switch. He realised he wasn’t helpless. Networking wasn’t some mysterious art. He could learn it. Understand it. Build with it.

So he went down the rabbit hole YouTube tutorials, MikroTik forums, wireless basics, antennas, routing, signal bands, everything. What started as frustration turned into a genuine obsession.

And then he did something that completely changed the trajectory of his life.
He started sharing his internet with neighbours. At first, using simple routers and switches, collecting small monthly subscriptions. It wasn’t a business. It was just a young guy trying to help a neighborhood with whatever he had. But that tiny initiative gave him his first customers, his first earnings, and his first taste of what solving a real problem feels like.

But Roshan wasn’t thinking small anymore If a single connection could help a few homes, what if he could help the whole town? What if he could build something of his own? That’s when he took the crazy leap.

He sold his drone.
He sold his mirrorless camera.
He took some savings from home.
And then — he started building a 60-ft metal tower on the rooftop of his house.

People laughed.
People doubted.
People whispered, “He’s lost it.”

But Roshan didn’t care. He could see something they couldn’t: internet changes lives, especially in places where dreams slow down because connections buffer.

Piece by piece, purchase by purchase, using AirFiber units he found online, he built the first WISP setup in his town. And just when things were starting to take shape, he received a phone call that pushed everything forward.

One day, after another AirFiber purchase, Roshan got a call from someone who simply said, “Hey, I noticed you’re ordering this equipment often — if you ever need help or better options, just reach out.” He didn’t know the person, and wasn’t sure what to make of it. But he took a small chance. A week later, everything he needed arrived on time, without the usual headaches. That moment of reliability turned into trust, and trust slowly became a working relationship. Funny enough, the stranger on that call Parth is now his teammate years later at FGTech.

Meanwhile, Roshan kept learning, experimenting, expanding. Wireless wasn’t enough.
So he began rolling out fiber.
Then upgrading to ISP-grade hardware.
Then securing partnerships.
Then scaling properly.
Then in 2023, he partnered with RailWire. It was a pivotal partnership as it gave him a stronger backbone to serve more villages with more stability.

By now, neighbours had stopped laughing.
They were too busy enjoying the stable internet he built.

From 2023 to 2025, Roshan kept expanding — home by home, lane by lane, village by village. What began as one frustrated student trying to keep his online class from buffering slowly grew into a full ISP serving rural Assam. Today, he and his small team have laid over 10km of fiber on their own, and even built a 19km+ AirFiber link — one of the longest in the region.

And none of this started with ambition.
It started with a simple need: “I just want stable internet so I don’t miss class.
But when the world didn’t give him that, he learned it, built it, rebuilt it, and eventually built it for everyone around him. That journey  the mistakes, the experiments  became something he now shares openly so others don’t have to struggle the way he did

If you want to follow Roshan’s ongoing work, his tutorials, he documents everything on YouTube. His story didn’t end with solving his own problem. It continues every day as he helps others solve theirs.

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