Tom, Your a vise man. Good words. There are many times where a partner ship proven to work well. Say there is a local business that need speed they might share the cost or maybe in next town there is cheaper service to be had or someone is already having service and would love to cost share it with you. Say they might be paying that 1600 a month for 512. Now if you do full T and share 768k each then your paying $980 for that faster service. Now we are talking... Should be a LOT easier to make a business plan with $980 for 768 then $1600 for 512k. I know when my average bandwidth cost dropped almost $300 per T things immediately looked lot better. For $100 more per month I have 50% more bandwidth then before... Now a little later after I signed new contracts I find out about some other deals I could made where I could basically gotten 100% more bandwidth. at similar price by backhauling it in wirelessly from another nearby town... Will be what I do with next upgrade.
Best regards, Eje Gustafsson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Family Entertainment Network http://www.fament.com Phone : 620-231-7777 Fax : 620-231-4066 - Your Full Time Professionals - eBay UserID : macahan --- searchable smartBridges mailing list archive. http://www.mail-archive.com/smartbridges40part-15.org/ -- TH> This is just an idea that has been overlooked. If you can't make money with TH> what the bandwidth costs you, find cheaper bandwidth. Don't reply with I TH> have already tried. Some of you can not find it cheaper, I know. But, TH> consider partnerships with ISP that can not reach your coverage area but can TH> supply your NOC. Get the Phone company to match a competitors price even if TH> that competitor can not supply your NOC, you own a wireless network that can TH> reach almost any supplier if needed. Get a little creative, no one ever made TH> a good life for themselves, self employed, without it. TH> -----Original Message----- TH> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TH> On Behalf Of John Hokenson TH> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 11:35 PM TH> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TH> Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Could not regain association TH> With those costs for bandwidth, it will be a challenge without some severe TH> bandwidth management. TH> JH TH> ----- Original Message ----- TH> From: Pascal Losier <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TH> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TH> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 8:24 PM TH> Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Could not regain association TH> So how can I make some money, I pay 1600$/month for a fractional T1 512k TH> lease line, or 2950$/month for a full 1.5Mb lease line. TH> I charge 69,99$ for 5Gb/month .............. I thinks it is impossible for TH> me to make some money. TH> Just to mention, It's canadian money, 1$ US = 1.50$ Can. TH> -----Original Message----- TH> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TH> On Behalf Of Patti Jones TH> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 8:38 PM TH> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TH> Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Could not regain association TH> So how much if any contract do they sign with you? 12 months. 24 none? TH> Patti TH> ----- Original Message ----- TH> From: Mark Koskenmaki <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TH> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TH> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 3:50 PM TH> Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Could not regain association TH> Here, at least, there are no other providers. In other towns, you can get TH> ADSL, but $30 is the same or less than anything else. That gets you 265K / TH> up to 256K ADSL (Quest's terminology, not mine), and I'll be offering 1.5 TH> Mbit for that price. No other provider can compete with that, since thier TH> overhead (due to the cost of the dsl line) only a bit less than that. For TH> me, I have little fixed cost, buy bandwidth at $1.50-2.00 a gig and resell TH> it at 3 to 5 times that plus the monthly service charge. TH> So, the model makes money. I'm going to be in the black at less than 10 TH> paying residential customers on the lowest tier. TH> But, since the area and customer base is limited, I never expect to get rich TH> at it. I have other ventures I'm pursuing to earn a living :) TH> Mark TH> NEOFAST.NET TH> North TH> East TH> Oregon TH> FAST TH> Net TH> mark(at)neofast.net TH> ----- Original Message ----- TH> From: Colin Watson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TH> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TH> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 1:27 PM TH> Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Could not regain association TH> I'm curious, do you find traffic limits (i.e. 1 gig/month) actually make you TH> competitive with the cable/adsl providers? Do people tolerate that - TH> especially as extra gigs cost, on top of subscriptions that must be as TH> expensive or more so then wired broadband equivilents? TH> ----- Original Message ----- TH> From: Dennis Burgess <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TH> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TH> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 9:01 PM TH> Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Could not regain association TH> I agree, however, customers DO NOT like there bill going up due to TH> transfers. How about just saying, you hit your transfer level, and then TH> drop there bandwitdth to 64k .. When they call up to say that their TH> intenret is slow you get them to upgrade to the bigger package! TH> Dennis TH> --- TH> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. TH> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). TH> Version: 6.0.497 / Virus Database: 296 - Release Date: 7/4/03 -- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
