exactly the mistake my company made. Shoulda, woulda, coulda leased... 'cept in NJ, it's $125 contract labor, and $244 for installation (199 install / 45 first month), oh and no free towers, they're all (16 of them) $500 / month / each at LEAST....
No free lunch. So to answer the previous question #3, no you will not be making tons of money - you will be eating your shirt :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:24 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Are you making money? Hi, Although he has spent some time and efforts, many of his numbers are WAY off: $50 installs (contract labor) customers paying $360 for installation $40 per month ARPU (for a startup WISP is not realistic today with $15 DSL) Just taking the installation numbers away completely changes this sheet... we are doing $99 installs and include a free Linksys wireless firewall/router. So now instead of making $15 per install, he will be losing $246. So now after 2 years, the company is making $11,736 per month profit but still shows $42,000 in debt (from the first 2 years) and hasn't paid anything back to the investors, banks, etc. Now, if you use the same sheet, lease the CPE ($5/mo per customer) and still buy the Linksys router for $40, the company is making $18,800 per month profit and has $98,000 in cash after 2 years. ;) Travis Microserv Brian Rohrbacher wrote: > http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17086669 > > I have not got to the spreadsheet, but the post was well worth the 5 > minute read, and I'm looking forward to getting some numbers down on > the spreadsheet. I think this could help some of us. > > Brian -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
