With that many sites, you might want to check out COS Systems and their Service Zones program.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Joe Falaschi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> > [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 >> e-vergent > > >
