Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital

2009-05-27 Thread Charles Wyble
RickG wrote: Charles, I'll check my archives for the spreadsheet (I think Charles Wu has it online someplace) Thanks. I appreciate that. but I believe the financing is only a small portion of the issue. Indeed. Gear is only a small part of the network. I was thinking 100k for

Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital

2009-05-25 Thread Rick Kunze
On 5/24/2009 9:25 PM, Marlon K. Schafer wrote: I'd start MUCH smaller and grow organically though. You should be able to start with less than $25k and keep the rest for operating and unexpected expenses. I tend to agree, and have been at this just as long. The luckiest thing I did was to

Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital

2009-05-25 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
LOL Careful what you wish for! marlon - Original Message - From: Rick Kunze rku...@colusanet.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital On 5/24/2009 9:25 PM, Marlon K. Schafer wrote: I'd

Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital

2009-05-25 Thread Mike Hammett
: Scottie Arnett sarn...@info-ed.com Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 11:52 PM To: char...@thewybles.com; WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital What you are missing...is most of us can't get the funding to build that Backhaul required and provide CPE

[WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital

2009-05-24 Thread Charles
All these talks about financing have been very interesting. Let's say I wanted to start a wisp to serve a medium city in southern california (population 100,000 or so). I can get access to gigabit fiber for a 1 time cross connect fee of 2500 and a monthly cost of 1500. There are a few

Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital

2009-05-24 Thread RickG
Charles, I'll check my archives for the spreadsheet (I think Charles Wu has it online someplace) but I believe the financing is only a small portion of the issue. It's the labor. Good, reliable labor, that has experience and knowledge. As far as your $100k, there are many variables and more

Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital

2009-05-24 Thread Scottie Arnett
What you are missing...is most of us can't get the funding to build that Backhaul required and provide CPE for 100,000 CPE up front. Ok, sorry, I see you are talking about Cali! Many of us are covering rural areas that the local telco is not yetand if they do...they are getting subsidized

Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital

2009-05-24 Thread Scottie Arnett
Plus all the cities that are mentioned are in a competitive environment! None that are government competitive subsidized for some reason or another. Scott -- Original Message -- From: RickG rgunder...@gmail.com Reply-To: WISPA General List