Nik Hug wrote: > > From: "Andre Oppermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [..] > > 100% too. That leaves 17.4% for the ISP to cover all his costs > > including Internet bandwidth, investments for routers, helpdesk, > > admin, billing and so on... > [..] > > and don't forget the debitor-risk! It's a typical consumer product and so at > least I expect a bunch of people paying their adsl-bill late or even never - > but the ISP has to pay swisscom even when the end-user doesn't pay .... with > such a customer you are loosing revenues from 10-20 "good" customers just to > pay for the "bad" customer.
However the sad thing is no matter how low the wholesale price for the ISP will be, there is always one approaching that price plus a few cents. This in turn forces the other ISPs to lower their prices too and again nobody has a useful margin again. -- Andre _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
