Thanks Jeff,
We're looking at those models right now.
The one that's already in place is 60 gigs for $350. Looks like 10 gigs
will go to $100. And something similar in the middle.
Marlon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps
Marlon , why the additive pricing for additional Gigs? Why wouldn't you
just charge x$ per gig, since that is essentially what you are being
charged by your upstream. If someone is using an average of 161 kbps
constantly for a month, that sounds a lot like a T-1. Speakeasy is doing
T-1s to the Internet for $399, others are doing SDSL at $250-299 per
month, so if you are in the neighborhood, that should be expected. Anothe
thing to think about is tiering your pricing
4 Gigs $49
10 Gigs $99
50 Gigs $299
or something like that.
John Thomas
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
Hi All,
OK, so now that we know who our heavy users are I have to come up with a
couple of things.
First, I have to figure out how many kbps a gig of download would be.
Specifically, I've got a couple of customers doing 50 gigs per month.
How many kbps does it take to generate that?
We pay for our internet based on kbps.
Next, what do we do for an overage fee? Currently it's set as $5 for the
first gig, $10 for the second, $20 for the third etc. At 25 gigs the
customer has a $5,000,000 bill. Sure that'll run off the abusers, but
I'd rather find a more reasonable way to bill them.
We have a business customer that legitimately uses 40 to 50 gig per
month. We just moved them from $75 to $350 per month (matched the t-1
price they pay in another town). They don't feel abused and I feel more
comfortable about their usage. We bumped them up to 60 gigs included.
I have another customer that's at 10 gigs now (our included limit is 4).
We talked about an appropriate rate of increase. Under our standard
levels, they'd more than double their bill. If we hit them with a couple
of hundred in billing they'd go elsewhere. We would, however, like to
dig a little bit deeper into their back pocket. I talked with them a bit
about our need to recover costs based on their usage etc.
They said if we hit $100 to $125 they'd not have a problem with that.
On our end we have two problems. One, we pay for internet based on
usage. The more they use the more we pay. Our costs were up 15% last
month. The other, maybe worse issue, is that we have to increase the
capacity to towers that have heavy users on them. Possibly to the point
of a dedicated ap to cover just a customer or three. Now we're really
talking bucks and spectrum issues etc.
My original idea was that if a person went over by a gig or two we'd ding
them a few dollars as a "shot across the bow" kind of thing. Around 50
of our 400 users are going over the new 4 gig level though. Some will
fix that by getting postini and dropping the spam. Some will fix that by
getting the kids to turn off the file sharing programs. And some are
legitimately using that much data.
In the end, we don't want to run off people if we can help it. Those at
the 30 to 50 gig level will probably leave us for other services, but
that's gonna be ok. They mess things up for everyone around them.
Better that my competitors have customers like that than we do. For all
of the rest, we need to recover our costs, and hopefully make a little
extra money on them.
Soooo, my new idea is, gigs 5 through 10 would be at $5 per month. Gigs
10 through 20 at $10 per gig. Over 20, call for a price and we'll work
something out that works for all of us. We really need it to naturally
hit around $350 at the 50 gig level to match what we did with the first
big customer.
Thougths????
Marlon
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