If you can find out what is needed to allow access from the existing CPE's, I believe that you can allow access to YOUR bandwidth, and charges those who want to use your service, regardless of who may own the CPE.
Now, if you want to own the CPE, you need to find out who owns the CPE. If there are leased -- are they leased buy the ISP that 'walked' away, or the individual customer. If by the customer, they just continue to make their lease payments to the leasing company, and you for allowing their CPE access to your service. If the previous ISP, perhaps the leasing company will work a sweet deal with you as it is NOT in their interest to retrieve the CPEs... Cliff LeBoeuf www.cssla.com www.triparish.net -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Ireton Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WISPA] The WISP that walked away 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? -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
