Kind of rough to figure out what exactly they are paying
per subscriber, the system may have a lot of
revenue from other sources, such as co-locating.
Put another cell carrier on the tower and you can add
another 200K or more to the value of the tower.
IE, if you have a cellular carrier on your tower, and
want to sell, you can expect 8 -9 -10 times yearly
revenue, or in some cases even more if you want to
sell that tower. (Yep, I'm buying!)
Even at the low end of valuation, with just 100 of
their towers having a co-locator (And that is a low
number for them) thats another 14.5 million
dollars of value to Verizon.
15 to 25 percent of the total value of the deal may be
coming from other income sources.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 4:10 PM
Subject: [WISPA] What are your customers worth?
This astounds me. Read the dollar amounts and customer counts below:
Verizon agrees to buy Rural Cellular
<http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/hCfcixdgyzwWwZCibGluwtpU?format=standard>
Verizon Wireless is snapping up Rural Cellular in a deal valued at $2.67
billion. The deal will boost Verizon's subscriber numbers by more than
700,000. The Washington Post/Reuters
A bit of quick math says that they are paying over $3,000.00 per
customer for this company. Obviously WISPs are not able to command such
valuations but it is interesting to see what the bigger guys will value
top end wireless companies
Scriv
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