I have one taking care of 600. He works about 2 installs a day and 2 troubles a day. The growth is pretty flat in that town. I have another area where there are a few more and we have 2 installers and the growth is pretty steady. I have 6 installers taking care of 4000 in another area. They are hardly breaking a sweat.
So, yeah I do have thousands. And I compete with Qwest and Comcast running full page ads in the paper mentioning us BY NAME. The question was when does a wisp become successful. Successful to me means about 25% ROI annually. No debt. 50% market share. Successful to you might mean that your WISP makes your mortgage payement for you as a part time venture. I started out the same as all of the rest of you guys. 4 APs and a dozen SMs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] when does a startup WISP become a successful WISP? > roflmao!!!! > > ONE person can't take care of 600 subs. Might work ok if you've got > thousands and you do 600 per sub. In our case we have 120ish dialups, 60 > or > 70 fiber to the home and over 400 wireless and I have a gal in the office > and I hire part time help when I have installs stacked up. > > So we're more in line with one body per 200 subs. > > I figure that a guy that keeps his day job and runs a part time WISP will > make more net income than most any of us ever will. grin > > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck McCown - 2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 6:32 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] when does a startup WISP become a successful WISP? > > >> My rule of thumb is you need 600 subscribers per employee. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kurt Fankhauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 7:17 AM >> Subject: [WISPA] when does a startup WISP become a successful WISP? >> >> >>> Whats the magic client number? >>> >>> >>> >>> Kurt Fankhauser >>> WAVELINC >>> P.O. Box 126 >>> Bucyrus, OH 44820 >>> 419-562-6405 >>> www.wavelinc.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
