Is it kind of a Trojan Horse thing? Get in the door selling Internet, then sell them home security and that’s where they make the real money?
BTW, I’m not knocking that approach. I think we underestimate the power of DISH, Direct, VZ/AT&T Wireless, they are already inside the castle walls and upselling the customer to increase their ARPU. As you drive around your coverage area, imagine you had the email address and phone number of every target customer, and were already billing them monthly, and could stick flyers in the bills, and send texts to their phones, and to the customer your service was just another line item in that bundle. Of course they may also hate you, but you have to rise to a pretty high hate level for people to cancel their bundle. From: Travis Johnson via Af Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Vivint wireless 20,000 - 30,000 subs in a year and half is great... but they have probably $20mm into it, and they are dumping more money (millions) into it as well.... it's a "play" thing for them. Kind of like Google's "fiber across the ocean" project... something cool, but not really your core business. Travis On 10/23/2014 8:51 AM, Mike Hammett via Af wrote: Yeah, but they got that far... in a year? Year and a half? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Travis Johnson via Af" mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:30:28 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Vivint wireless Well, they only have about 150,000 more subs to go... :) Travis On 10/23/2014 6:35 AM, Mike Hammett via Af wrote: *nods* They've been doing this for over a year. Last year at WISPAPALOOZA they had like 30 people there. Some expect them to overtake JAB as the largest WISP in the states. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "TJ Trout via Af" mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:43:02 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Vivint wireless Where have you been? Lol search the list :] On Oct 22, 2014 8:39 PM, "Jaime Solorza via Af" <[email protected]> wrote: Spoke to young guys from Vivint Today at lunch and they are beta testing 50 x 50 mbps wireless using a fiber fed hub and then cover a neighborhood. Testing here and Utah somewhere. They work for automation branch and didnt know particulars. Anyone hear about this? Jaime Solorza
