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Thats what I'm doing, Qwest wants $1200.00 for a T1
but I found I can get SDSL at $400.00 same speed as T1 and I can upgrade to the
T1 later with no penalty.
Joe
RiverNet
This
is just an idea that has been overlooked. If you can't make money with what
the bandwidth costs you, find cheaper bandwidth. Don't reply with I have
already tried. Some of you can not find it cheaper, I know. But, consider
partnerships with ISP that can not reach your coverage area but can supply
your NOC. Get the Phone company to match a competitors price even if that
competitor can not supply your NOC, you own a wireless network that can reach
almost any supplier if needed. Get a little creative, no one ever made a good
life for themselves, self employed, without it.
With those costs for bandwidth, it will be a
challenge without some severe bandwidth management.
JH
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 8:24
PM
Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Could not
regain association
So
how can I make some money, I pay 1600$/month for a fractional T1
512k lease line, or 2950$/month for a full 1.5Mb lease
line.
I
charge 69,99$ for 5Gb/month .............. I thinks it is impossible for me
to make some money.
Just to mention, It's canadian
money, 1$ US =
1.50$ Can.
So how much if any contract do they sign with
you? 12 months. 24 none?
Patti
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 3:50
PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Could
not regain association
Here, at least, there are no other
providers. In other towns, you can get ADSL, but $30
is the same or less than anything else. That gets you
265K / up to 256K ADSL (Quest's terminology, not mine), and I'll be
offering 1.5 Mbit for that price. No other provider can
compete with that, since thier overhead (due to the cost of the dsl
line) only a bit less than that. For me, I have little fixed
cost, buy bandwidth at $1.50-2.00 a gig and resell it at 3 to 5 times
that plus the monthly service charge.
So, the model makes money. I'm
going to be in the black at less than 10 paying residential customers on
the lowest tier.
But, since the area and customer base is
limited, I never expect to get rich at it. I have other
ventures I'm pursuing to earn a living :)
Mark
NEOFAST.NET
North
East
Oregon
FAST
Net
mark(at)neofast.net
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 1:27
PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Could
not regain association
I'm curious, do you find traffic limits
(i.e. 1 gig/month) actually make you competitive with the
cable/adsl providers? Do people tolerate that - especially as
extra gigs cost, on top of subscriptions that must be as expensive or
more so then wired broadband equivilents?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003
9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges]
Could not regain association
I agree, however, customers DO NOT like
there bill going up due to transfers. How about just saying,
you hit your transfer level, and then drop there bandwitdth to 64k
.. When they call up to say that their intenret is slow you
get them to upgrade to the bigger package!
Dennis
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