Why bother? To me there are a lot of reasons.
1. We cover a lot of ground with 120 towers in nine counties in two
states. We upgrade towers weekly but just can't keep up at times it's
difficult to stay ahead of the demand for more speed.
2. Different towers are capable of different plans based on where we are
at in the upgrade cycle. I don't want to get into a situation where a
lead thinks they can get one plan but we can only deliver a different
set in that area. Nothing will be perfect but general groupings of
towers are usually similar vintage.
3. Costs are just different. Some regions have fiber to them and others
we have to back haul via 4 or 5 licensed microwave hops to get to the
region that has fiber. Some regions cost us 2k a month per tower and
others are trade outs of an Internet account for grain elevator placement.
4. Customer makeup. Some towers we can install DIA circuits on to help
offset costs. In rural areas we're not going to put a $1000/mo account
on the tower. In the urban or suburban areas we can blend day time and
night time usage for more effective usage of the tower rent and back
haul network even if the tower rent is more.
5. Some towers are just currently poorly performing and we have sunk
costs that we need to recoup, these would be the promo type towers.
From time to time the word does get out that one area is different. It
is what it is. We just tell them that is the case 80 miles away but not
here. The point of this whole thing is to at least not put it in their
face though.
Joe
On 2/18/16 5:46 PM, Sean Heskett wrote:
Why bother???
Why not just price your service equal for everyone and average out
your costs/income? Although we certainly could get away with pricing
rural users higher than city dwellers, I prefer to just average it out
across our network.
I think a wiser move would be to equip your sales staff with a
discount pro-mo if a client is really obtouse.
Is your price difference per area going to be greater than $10/mo??
For instance rural service is $59/mo but city service is $49/mo?
What happens when they have a friend in a different service area of
yours that gets a different price? They are gonna call and complain.
2 cents
-Sean
On Thursday, February 18, 2016, Joe Falaschi <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Does anyone know of an elegant solution to display a pricing page
based on a street address? I want to create a few polygons and if
the address is within polygon a, b, or c show a different pricing
page. We have a wordpress site. I've seen some google maps
example that we can probably make work if done in an iframe. Just
curious if anyone has already done this and has any suggestions on
word press plugins or google maps libraries. Thanks!
Joe Falaschi
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