You'd want closer to 15-30 subs per AP on 900mhz to deploy or a high install cost to make it worthwhile. We're always at 1-year ROI on tower and CPE gear and any longer than that, we move on to more profitable projects.
If you can't make ROI work, leave the PMP100 up and tell customers you can't justify to upgrade to higher speeds unless they pay more upfront or monthly. You don't owe these subs anything in terms of tying up your cash for that long. On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]> wrote: > So I have 2% of my customer base that is running 900mhz PMP100 using 11 > different access points. I am trying to cost justify weather it is feasible > to upgrade them to PMP450i-900mhz. I am using a lot of Omni's with the > PMP100 so most likely I will need twice as many AP's as I currently have > because they won't all be on the same side of the towers. So looking at > costs I see the following: > > PMP450i AP's x 20 = $46,000 > 900mhz sectors x 20 = $6,320 > PMP450 SM x 20 = $4,784 > SM antenna x 20 = $1,424 > > equipment cost total = $58,528 > plus my time of putting it all up > > I am currently grossing $934.00/month from the 2% of customers running on > the PMP100-900mhz now. > > At this rate it would take 5 years to break even on deploying the > 450i-900mhz and I really can't offer any better speeds with it than what I > was able to offer with the old FSK 2.4/5ghz stuff. > > Is it just me or does this not make sense worth deploying? > -- Darin Steffl Minnesota WiFi www.mnwifi.com 507-634-WiFi <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi>
