And we only have 1000 telco customers. The WISP is a far larger operation.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck McCown - 2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] when does a startup WISP become a successful WISP? > We hire the front office and accounting from another related company on a > service bureau basis. > > Our installers are our tower climbers. We hire a call center for tech > support. We have two NOC guys on a full time basis. > When I say started out like the rest of you, I started one customer at a > time. Grass roots. > > Word of mouth advertising is what made us what we are. The telco > relationship acutually hurts in the amount of extreme extra bookeeping we > go to to prove that we are not getting any advantage of the relationship. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Travis Johnson > To: WISPA General List > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:49 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] when does a startup WISP become a successful WISP? > > > Chuck, > > You didn't take into account the receptionists, accounting people, > technical support (for email, DNS problems, etc.), supervisors, tower > climbers, etc. > > Also, you didn't quite start out the same as the rest of us (because you > gave away your first install time by saying "SM"). Our first install was a > Lucent ISA 900mhz card running in a 386 PC with "BrouteIt" software in > 1997. ;) > > Also, aren't you part of a telephone company? > > Travis > Microserv > > Chuck McCown - 2 wrote: > 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" <wireless@wispa.org> > 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" <wireless@wispa.org> > 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'" <wireless@wispa.org> > 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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