If it were me, and I have no head for business, I would offer x bandwidth for 30 days for the holidays, no fee. However, you get to do some redirects explaining who you are, what youre doing, and for how long, while their ISP "reorganizes" buys you time to vet them buys them time to save face most importantly, buys you PR gold, helping a competitor (and their customers) to get through the holiday
if they recover, you have a partnership with a competitor if they fold you have more customers if they werent paying their noc bandwidth, i would guess any non customer landlords they had werent getting paid either its what id do, but im really a swell guy On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:58 PM, CBB - Jay Fuller <par...@cyberbroadband.net > wrote: > > So there is a WISP near us who we recently started coordinating with on > frequencies, etc. > > Last Friday, the reached out and asked if we'd like to buy them. > > Then later that day they stated they were in a contract negotiation with > their bandwidth provider and didn't see a solution. > > Over the weekend I spoke with someone else who had been affiliated with > this company and basically their NOC has been > repossessed by the bank. > > Monday they reached out and asked if we might sell them bandwidth. I told > them we'd discuss it internally. > > Today I see on their facebook page their fiber is down - so this is day > one of their going away, I'd assume. > > There is likely no time left for vetting or due diligence on reviewing > this ISP for purchase so at this point it is likely a long shot. > > My question - I assume you would all advise run run run as fast as you can. > > From the time a WISP loses their bandwidth (and thus can't provide > service) what is the rate of customer exodus? > If we came to an agreement and resumed services say - just in time for > Christmas - what percentage would you all guess > the customer base would have departed? > > I am told they have 250 + or - > > I don't know if they're in an area where they are losing to the incumbent > phone provider or cable provider. > (I know they are in centurylink territory) > > I know our closest tower to them is 18 miles - but they're probably six > hops from our head end. > > Merry Christmas. :) > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
