Not having enough capital is a matter of goals as well. When I was in it, we did 100% of capital improvements through profit. As a result we always had "enough" because we scaled back expansion plans to match what we had. There was always ore than enough to keep the latest greatest for the current deployment.
Having said all that, If I was to do that over, I would go out and borrow so I could build faster. In that case, we would have likely fallen into the "never enough capital" or at least bumped up against that at some point. It always seemed that financing wasn't the big issue. Finding the right sites, deploying them, and marketing them was always the biggest issue. On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 6:38 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not going to buy his book, but he might not be as crazy as you're > thinking. Based on what he says bandwidth costs, his info might be rather > old. He's also Australian per his profile. I assume things are different > there. > > I do believe that you can make good money when you're very small or very > big, and that there's a wide middle ground where you never seem to have > enough capital. The tipping point from that hungry middle ground to the > big-with-good-profit could be somewhere around 3-10k subs depending on > other circumstances. > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Jason McKemie" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: 1/3/2018 3:15:52 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Quora Question on Being an ISP... Special notice of > the Level 3 mentioned response... > > Nice, what a BS artist, and I'm using the term artist loosely. So > apparently this guy built the biggest network around 3 times over and says > you need 10K customers just to break even. He'll even sell you a manual > for $15K, what a steal. I'm going to run and find my checkbook now. > > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:10 PM, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I like the guy who says 10K customers or go home (paraphrased)... >> >> >> https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-for-me-to-become-my-own-Internet-service-provider-ISP-What-exactly-are-we-paying-AT-T-Verizon-and-other-ISPs-to-do-Precisely-how-do-they-provide-Internet-service >> > >
