The concept described in [1] is in no meaningful way different from a traditional fiber build and does not offer any cost advantage.

You are also totally overselling the capabilities of your Fiberhood router.

P.S. Your website in the paper is defunct and the whitepaper on the site in your profile is non-existent.

Can this be done for smaller areas by sharing a full time employee? For example, our community has a shared well and reservoir with a part time water manager that administers/maintains our system along with many others in the area.

Yes, you can run a small ISP part time, even remotely.

The process of signing up enough members of the community is a bit more work, but can still be done part time.

An optical fiber ISP will cost between $200 and $1000 per house to build, $10 per month fees are possible.

Yes, I run multiple fiber ISPs.

I'd love to get in touch and see if we could collaborate.

Sent you an email.

Seems like you missed the part where large ISPs have successfully forced states to ban municipalities from building their own networks.

It doesn't matter how hard or easy something is if it's illegal, even if the laws that make it illegal are themselves extremely obvious examples of regulatory corruption.

States and municipalities don’t need to build it; small community-run organizations (nonprofits or not) can do so in Oregon.

The world is a lot larger than the US. Why do you assume only municipalities build their own networks?

Because the article is specifically about the insanity that is "internet in rural US"?