Because it wasn't enough to piss off every major television broadcaster in America with his last company, Aereo, now Chet Kanojia is taking on the country's biggest Internet providers with a new start-up called Starry.

The company, which Kanojia officially announced in New York City this morning after keeping it under wraps for a year, aims to offer people wireless Internet access at speeds that are faster than wired broadband at a fraction of the cost. The goal is to circumvent not only the hefty infrastructure cost of wired networks, but also the companies that build and provide those networks—as well as all of the complexities of getting a technician to come to your home and install that network. Instead, Starry allows anyone to plug in a small device at home and receive the Internet instantly over a wireless connection.

If Starry's plan works, it could accomplish the very thing Aereo set out to do, which is free consumers from the bundle.

"This is how it should be in our opinion," Kanojia said. "Wired infrastructure is just difficult."

Here's how it works: Starry utilizes what are known as high-frequency millimeter waves to deliver the signal to people's homes. To broadcast that signal, Starry installs so-called Starry Beams on rooftops throughout a city. Each Beam can cover roughly 2 kilometers, sending connectivity directly to hubs called Starry Points, which people can place just outside their window to pick up a signal. This set up means that Starry will launch city by city, region by region, as it installs these networks of Beams. Its first market will be Boston, with beta tests launching this summer.

Kanojia declined to say just how much a monthly plan for Starry would cost, except to say that it will be much cheaper than standard broadband, because Starry's own costs are expected to be much lower. According to the company's estimates, the average wired network costs about $2,500 per home to deploy. Starry's cost, Kanojia says, is just $25 a month.

The Next Fight

In many ways, Starry is the continuation of Kanojia's longstanding mission to give consumers more choice in how they connect to the Internet and television. With Aereo, Kanojia wanted give cord-cutters a way to watch live over-the-air television without buying a full cable package. To do that, it built warehouses full of mini-antennae and argued that those antennae were no different than the bunny ears people are free to buy for their own homes.

The broadcasters begged to differ, arguing that if they had to pay for the rights to copyrighted programming, then Aereo should, too. In the end, the Supreme Court sided with the broadcasters, forcing Aereo to close up shop for good. Now, Kanojia is again bracing for a fight which is, while equally difficult to pull off, slightly less risky.

Kanojia, for his part, believes the regulatory winds are blowing in his favor. "I think in general there is a desire for competition," he says.

There will, of course, be ample competition, not only from giants like Comcast, but also newer providers like Google, which have been expanding its Google Fiber networks across the country in recent years. It will also face off against startups like Karma which, though still in their infancy, are also experimenting with wireless access.

But while Starry is competing directly with these companies, it's also building routers that anyone can use, no matter their internet service provider. The Starry Station is a sleekly designed device with a touchscreen interface that allows people to track the devices on their network and the overall health of their network on a daily basis, and lets them install things like parental controls and, possibly, even ad-blocking technology at the network level. The router, which retails for $349.99 is intended to be a high-tech upgrade from the black box routers that leave cobwebs of wires on living room floors across America.

If Starry's plan works, it could accomplish the very thing Aereo set out to do, which is free consumers from the bundle. In Aereo's case, it was the cable bundle. In Starry's it's the broadband bundle. Something tells us another battle with the industry incumbents won't be far behind.