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The problem with this in our area is that
generally they want more per month for rental that we would generate for subs
off a tower. They think we are similar to cell companies and have deep pockets,
not realizing that we may only serve 30 customers off of a single tower. Chadd From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Travis Johnson Or even better is to just pay a flat monthly rate
regardless of customers, etc. Johnny, If you can get away
from the revenue share try to. If they want in on the action maybe set up a
flat rate per customer added to that site. The reason for this would be that if
you need to increase your ARPU you can raise the price and not have an
increased expense for doing so, your expense to the tower owner stays the same.
In my cellular days the carriers would never do a revenue share with
landowners or tower owners. When it was a sticking point in the negotiations it
could be overcome most times by finding some point (in this case per customer)
to increase the payment on a more fixed rate. If you were to ever try and sell
your business this puts you in a much more favorable position than having
revenue sharing. Revenue sharing creates a situation where you might have to
open your books to this landowner so he can audit to see if he is getting his
proper payments, whereas all you need to do for a per customer rate is do a
dump from something like your Radius server or the access point itself to have
all the accounting information necessary. Just an idea and a useless one if you
have already committed to this deal.
Brian Webster
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