From what I remember it is a nice system, and does a lot more back end
stuff, which would be nice but not necessary at this point. I do
remember them being a little expensive. Thanks for the reminder, I'll
check them out.
Joe
On 2/18/16 10:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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]
<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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