The reality on an AM site is that the whole thing is a crap shoot. You could
throw up the cheapest crap in the world and it could work fine. Then you throw
up the best stuff on the market and you have nothing but headaches.
AM sites are really to be avoided even if they are not direct fed.
Use
Patrick who? Never heard of him... grin
Welcome Patrick! Look forward to hearing about all the great products
Aperto will be offering in 2009.
Best,
Brad
-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of John Scrivner
Sent: Monday,
Hi,
I'm curious what everyone else is using for sending USPS letters and
packages? We've had a nice postage machine (seals, stamps, etc.) that
does our envelopes each month (about 1,500 per month). However, I'm
getting tired of these companies (Neopost) charging $200 for a software
update
Thanks Brad...
-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Brad Belton
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:17 AM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: Re: [WISPA] New WISPA Vendor Member - Aperto Networks
Patrick who? Never heard of
As an aside, KY is being extremely tough on tower owners,
wanting complete inventories of equipment at a tower,
and wanting to tax all towers as if they were all cell phone
towers.
They have one guy that is doing nothing but going from the
FCC ASR and cross checking tax rolls. He stated that
John,
We were talking about Personal Property Tax, not Sales Tax. But you made a
good point, Sales Tax is also an issue that WISPs need to be aware of.
The liabilty for Sales Tax is just the rate of sales tax for one year. (6%
in MD). But Property Tax can be worse, because it is assessed every
Emailing the invoice for the most part. Makes things a lot easier for
everyone and it is free.
On 1/5/09, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote:
Hi,
I'm curious what everyone else is using for sending USPS letters and
packages? We've had a nice postage machine (seals, stamps, etc.) that
does
As do we. And when they say they need a paper invoice I reply "Click
Print".
Brian
Josh Luthman wrote:
Emailing the invoice for the most part. Makes things a lot easier for
everyone and it is "free".
On 1/5/09, Travis Johnson t...@ida.net wrote:
Hi,
I'm curious what everyone
Brian,
They knew way before. How high are you going up?
Dustin
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:46 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] POE up AM radio tower
Doug
Look into having a 3rd party print, stuff ad mail your invoices - one of the
firms we have done this with does it FAR cheaper than I could (volume
postage discounts and industrial printing equipment). Basically, you upload
a digital file on billing day and they do the rest in hours
Aaron D.
Something else you can do is use a printing co. There should be one
local to you. They should be able to print, stuff and qualify for
bulk rates.
Something else we did, we had 220 people in my subdivision, it was 92
bucks for postage, plus envelopes, plus printing, plus paper etc.
We would e-mail invoices on the 25th and reminders on the 5th. Then suspend
service on the 20th and charge $25 to reconnect.
The other option is a payment coupon book. Only need to mail once. You would
be surprised how well they work
Bob
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-Original
We recently had to replace our Pitney Bowes postage machine after 10-15yrs
of service from it. It was a good old machine.klunkdy-klunk as letters were
pushed through it. It still worked fine, but became obsolete and longer
supported etc, etc.
The new Pitney Bowes machine is pretty slick and
We use a couple pitney bowes machines. Ones that folds and stuffs
envelops and the other stamps and seals.
If I had my way, I would just make everyone use credit cards.
I know some other companies that offer a $1 or so off a month if they
get automatically billed by CC.
-Cam
-Original
My cellular company charges customers if they want a paper bill by mail.
Online is free.
Jeff
-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Brad Belton
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:57 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: Re:
I usually know what my competitors are doing before they think about doing
it. ;-)
They should know where all of your locations are, just as you should know
where all of their locations are. It makes RF cooperation a whole lot
easier that way.
-
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing
Interference Well
You've got to give a little, take
a little
And let your poor heart break a little
That's the story of,
That's the glory of WISP
You've got to laugh a little,
cry a little
Until the clouds roll by a little
That's the story of,
That's the glory of WISP
You've got
Doug Ratcliffe wrote:
So now that the entire internet now has figured out which tower I'm talking
about (including local competition that may not have known where my tower
broadcasts were located)...
All the more reason to use the members list..
What kind of ethernet/POE
Welcome aboard Patrick. We are pleased to be working with you. In support
of your promotion we will be providing personalized Aperto training via our
Webinar process for those that take you up on the promotion. The training
is open ended, but normally takes 6 hours. This should prepare the
True. The height is 160 feet. I was thinking about using outside plant
heavy duty shielded 25-pair Cat5e rated 50-pin telco cables, rather than 14
individual cat-5 wires, going into 6-cable cat5e octopus cables at the top
and bottom for easier cable management.
- Original Message -
Travis-
As Brad and some others have mentioned, we use a PB stamping system as well -
monthly fees are nominal and works well. As a side note we charge $2.99/mo
paper statement fee for customers who demand paper statements mailed monthly,
6mo and 12mo pre-paid customers get them for free
It's called "personal property tax" around here. All the businesses
pay it here. I get to pay it right to my mom, the township treasurer.
Brian
Mike Hammett wrote:
I've never heard of a property tax that was applied to anything other than a
parcel of land or a structure. I know our
I would like to welcome an old friend here to WISPA membership. Many of you
have known Patrick Leary for years as a friend of the WISP industry. Patrick
has recently joined forces with Aperto Networks. Today Aperto Networks is a
Vendor Member of WISPA and Patrick Leary as their representative
What if one customer signs two different contracts? at two different
locations?
Is there ever a point where a single customer should for the purposes
of ARPU be considered at a less granular level?
-Matt
On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Travis Johnson wrote:
My assumption has always been
ARPU is also a widely used term and barometer of success within the cable
industry. They continue to attempt to drive ARPU by bundling additional
products in their service offering. Like voice services! :) But also by
marketing premium services -- I just upgraded to Brighthouse's 15 MB 'turbo'
We charge a higher amount for business class service. For those customers,
we will send them a paper bill for free, but only when they ask and we try
to get an email address from them.
For those customers that we charge $500-$2000 a month, we don't even ask, we
just send them a paper bill.
For
It is property tax AKA usage tax and has nothing to do with sales tax.
Also, it is a FMV lease. Unfortunately, the leasing company wrote it
into the lease.
Thanks to all for your comments!
-RickG
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, John Scrivner j...@scrivner.com wrote:
Is this property tax or
Cameron Kilton wrote:
I know some other companies that offer a $1 or so off a month if they
get automatically billed by CC.
We do this. Switched about half our users in a month.
WISPA Wants You! Join
Ya, I learned about the sales tax issue a long time ago. It's really
no big deal is you purchase locally but those ebay purchased really
add up!
-RickG
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Tom DeReggi wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net wrote:
John,
We were talking about Personal Property Tax, not Sales
Called tangible personal property tax in TN.
Scottie
-- Original Message --
From: Brian Rohrbacher br...@reliableinter.net
Reply-To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:21:56 -0500
Wireless High Speed Broadband service from
KY is tough on everything. I've only lived here for 2 years and find
the government to be anti-business compared to other states I've lived
and done business in.
As far as towers, I dont own any and at this point I'm glad I dont.
-RickG
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Blake Bowers
Ya, and you said they were "billed from the local tax authority"? That
is not how it works around here. Personal property tax is based off of
your assets value that is voluntarily reported. So the lease company
must have reported the assets. Make sure they reported the correct
value. It it
We also use the coupon books along with emailed invoices. Works very well.
Scottie
-- Original Message --
From: lakel...@gbcx.net
Reply-To: lakel...@gbcx.net, WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:56:26 +
The other option is
Makes RF interference so much easier too! :-)
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-Original Message-
From: Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:06:24
To: WISPA General Listwireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] POE up AM radio tower
I usually know what
We send email bills directly from the BOSS/Platypus system.
Stopped doing paper bills a year or more ago. We were using a Pitney Bowes
system.
- Original Message -
From: Travis Johnson t...@ida.net
To: isp-wirel...@isp-wireless.com; WISPA General List
wireless@wispa.org; Motorola
www.controlbyweb.com
Gino A. Villarini
g...@aeronetpr.com
Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145
-Original Message-
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Josh Luthman
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:52 PM
Matt,
You would generally count just the one unique customer.
That said, every ARPU calculation I have seen seems to be slightly
different which in itself reflects the different definitions of
customers and revenue. One example is treatment of MDU (Multiple
Dwelling Unit) Apartments which is
I think it also matters what the purpose is for stating ARPU.
For example, if ARPU was considering ALL revenue, it would be meaningless if
that revenue was not trasferable to a third party, and discussing ARPU based
on selling to a third party.
For example, if you are a local computer repair
Platypus (Billing Company) has a service where they will print, fold, mail
statements for $0.70 / invoice -- that includes printing, folding, stuffin,
envelope, return envelope, perforated tear-offs and even the stamp
To me, that sounds like a smoking deal (granted, you need to use the Platypus
I have one of the new whats up ethernet units. It'll monitor a LOT of stuff
AND will cause a reboot. Very small unit, not a rack mount unit.
My new rack mount digital logger will give a voltage reading. Pretty nice
unit.
Like you said though, both are around $700. sorry
marlon
-
I almost used some of those. But the pagers are pretty well gone around
here now. And with the auto reboot it's not really needed for my work.
marlon
- Original Message -
From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Saturday, January
Quickbooks does it as well - don't know the price.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Charles Wu (CTI)
Quickbooks has a similar service for a similar price and it's built right
into Quickbooks.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Charles Wu (CTI) c...@cticonnect.com wrote:
Platypus (Billing Company) has a service where they will print, fold, mail
statements for $0.70 / invoice -- that includes
We send out email bills. If you want a paper one then we charge an extra
$1.00 per month for it. That covers the cost of licking and stamping.
We also use pre-glued stamps. Just peal and stick.
Hope this helps,
marlon
- Original Message -
From: Travis Johnson t...@ida.net
To:
415 a month, and $.70 or so per invoice. And if you have a merchant
account, the users can pay on line.
Josh Luthman wrote:
Quickbooks does it as well - don't know the price.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
Those who don't
That was supposed to be $15...
Blair Davis wrote:
415 a month, and $.70 or so per invoice. And if you have a merchant
account, the users can pay on line.
Josh Luthman wrote:
Quickbooks does it as well - don't know the price.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct:
Tower accident...
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-20.html
WISPA Wants You! Join today!
http://signup.wispa.org/
Yikes!
double tie-offs
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Jerry Richardson
airCloud Communications
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Blair Davis
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:20 PM
To: WISPA
Oh NO, not the Darwin Awards again...
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-07.html
I almost died laughing...
Blair Davis wrote:
Tower accident...
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-20.html
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