No, you tempoarailly use those CPEs, to quickly get the subs re-installed.
The CPEs are owned by the leasing company, and assuming them is theft. Do
your best to find out who the leasor is, and call them to negotiate buying
them on a percentage of the dollar, or take over remaining lease balance.
The last thing you want is the Lease company to issue a court order to get
cclient locations disclosed, pay some one to pull out the CPEs, and have
your tenants disconnected without notice. Sorta like the Repo man. Its a
falicy that its not worth the leasing companies time to collect the gear.
But its costlyto colelct the gear, and they'd rather negotiate favorable
terms with you.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] The WISP that walked away
Hire an attorney, get copies of what customers signed from an existing
customer of his. Give it to the attorney along with the brief letter you
got from the guy saying he was calling it quits. I see no need to let the
CPE go to waste if you can make it work provided there is no legal / civil
reason to avoid it. Worst case I see is you use the existing CPE for a
while and then replace it if someone comes calling to claim it later. This
is strictly my opinion though. Seek legal counsel no matter what you do.
Best $100 you'll spend.
Scriv
Mike Ireton wrote:
An operator in my local area, covering a small area I would nevertheless
like to have, recently just upped and walked away from his operation,
leaving all cpe in place and some very confused customers who were told
to go get cable or dsl. He was very short with me in email and indicated
that the equipment was leased and that he had had enough with trying to
scratch out something more than an avarage living and is glad to be rid
of it and out of the business, and no further communication will be
possible, end of story.
Ethics question: Do I swoop in with my own backhaul and reactivate the
system using the existing cpe units (mostly motorola, right up our
alley), or do we build a new system from scratch and avoid these now
defunct cpe's like the plauge?
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