This depends on your market and how you're running your business. If you've made decisions that were risky and didn't pan out, and you're getting phone calls left and right and your kids don't see you... Sell and have a better life.
For those of us who are working hard but not in crisis mode all the time...There will be a time to sell, and most likely it will be when you're tired of running your business. You'll have ups & downs, but don't listen to the fear inside your head. Install your customers and KEEP THEM HAPPY. In other words, don't give them a reason to CONSIDER other options. Yes, there will be that 5% chomping at the bit for more bandwidth and will leave you in half a heartbeat once a faster service is available to them...let them go. And don't worry about them again. Reclaim their equipment and charge an install fee for it to someone else (if that's what you do). I remember...not a week after we started our businessin 2001...We noticed the Starband (satellite provider) web site. And we thought "Well, that blows our service if everyone can get satellite". Didn't happen. When Qwest came into town we thought "well there goes all of our 'in-town' customers". Didn't happen. Then Comcast came into town with their 6megs...same thing. I do believe that those who focus on rural areas (as we do) will almost always have less churn, but this comes at a price of growing slower unless you expand your wireless footprint. Even with the expanding markets, you can still have value to your customers, and service your niche, at all times. Mark Nash UnwiredWest 78 Centennial Loop, Suite E Eugene, OR 97401 http://www.unwiredwest.com 541-998-5555 541-998-5599 fax ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:44 PM Subject: [WISPA] Future > What do you see as the future of our industry over the next 5 years? > > AT&T is expanding U-Verse (will this be available outside of town?) > Verizon is expanding FiOS (will this be available outside of town?) > Cable will be using DOCSIS 3 > 3G will gain more steam > WiMAX will have larger and larger shares of the market > 700 MHz will be in use possibly for data communications by the big guys > > > My banker asked me, so I figured I'd see what other's opinions are. > > My thought is that the big guys mentioned above will continue to avoid the > niche that we currently serve and we'll be able to provide better services > with more spectrum (5.4 GHz, additional 2.5 GHz, 3.6 GHz, possibly TV > white spaces) and WiMAX. > > > ---------- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.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/
