5 years. I took it as an honor to be bashed by a nationwide publicly traded company.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt Fankhauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:40 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] when does a startup WISP become a successful WISP? > Wow full page ads with them bashing your company name? That sucks. How > long > did it take you to go from the dozen subs to what you have built it up to > now? > > Kurt Fankhauser > WAVELINC > P.O. Box 126 > Bucyrus, OH 44820 > 419-562-6405 > www.wavelinc.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Chuck McCown - 2 > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:19 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] when does a startup WISP become a successful WISP? > > 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. 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