Grin. Yeah, fiber is going in all over the place. It'll hit every home in
the country next week. After all, digging up roads is cheap!
I've had a few people leave DSL for our wireless of late. They all report
HUGE increases in performance with us. And they love the fact that they can
pick up a phone and call us and we'll actually talk to them. A real person
and all.
To understand where broadband is going I think we only have to look to
dialup. Look back to about 1992 and put the broadband industry in 2002 in
that spot.
The day is coming when people will get 100 meg connections for $10. No one
will point out that it's only available to .0000002% of the users nor that
it's ad supported and choc full of spyware. But it'll get all the press.
I think that the normal broadband rate is headed for the normal dialup rate
of $15 to $25. Speeds (actual not advertised) will be in the 500k to 1.5
meg range. (How many people do you know that pitch a fit because their 56k
modem never really hits 56k?)
Sure it's going to get tougher to compete. We can still do it cheaper and
better than they can. And we can still go places they can't go. And we
can get there faster in almost all cases.
Amazingly there are still independent auto mechanics, restaurants, doctors,
radio stations, garbage collectors etc. Somehow I think that the WISPs
won't be going away any time soon. Not unless they totally screw the pooch.
laters,
Marlon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] How to compete (was) 30Mbps for $55/month!
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
Grin. Sure, we'd all pay $50 for 30 megs.
So go get it for YOUR connectivity and offer 10 megs for $35 and still
make a ton of money!
Sorry, can't do it, it's not a resellable connection. However, they will
sell you a 30Mbps resellable package for $199/month.
As long as we maintain the ability to buy these types of connections I
think it's actually a good thing for the wips.
Unfortunately, we don't.
Our wireless just went from 1.5 megs (was limited by the t-1) to 3 meg
with NO increase in cost to the customer. No need for them to call us
and ask for the new service either. It just happened for them. The
telco NEVER treats their customers that way.
Um, Verizon just doubled their DSL speeds everywhere in their territory
from 1.5Mbps to 3Mbps at no additional charge.
Where I think the whole thing is funny is that the telcos and the cable
cos don't normally upgrade every few years like the wisps do. They are
putting out 30 by 5 megs how far? Our new gear will do over 20 by 20
megs for MILES in all directions! Tomorrow's gear will make that look
like a joke. By the time these guys get around to giving away 50 megs
we'll already be giving people 75!
You have heard of DOCSIS 2.0 and the newest standard DOCSIS 3.0? You do
know that DSL had been upgraded at least three times in the last six year,
right? Next up ADSL 2.0+ with 14Mbps (and down from there)
As to the 30Mbps package it goes for as far as Verizon wants to install
it, it is fiber! As far as 20Mbps symmetrical, so what? The fiber is
essentially limitless as far as bandwidth is concerned while the equipment
you mentioned is "Shared" which is really comparing apples to rocks! And
unless you know for certain that we are going to get a big chunk of
spectrum we are eventually going to reach the limits our bands can
provide. Remember, burst and release is a dying business model, the
ability to deliver sustained bandwidth speeds is now going to be the rule
of the road. This means that 75Mbps shared is not 75Mbps delivered to each
customer sustained. BIG difference.
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