oh, I'm not having any issues with excessive customers. I use more (excluding my friend) than 30 other customers combined.
Discussions on another list prompted me to ask around about this. ---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Metered Broadband Hi, Although it's a great thought, I don't think "metered" broadband will ever catch on in the US. Even the cell phone companies are moving to an "unlimited voice/data/SMS package for only $99" service pricing. My power company will do a "level-pay" program on my power after being activated for a full year. They take the average of the 12 months and that's your fixed monthly payment. They make adjustments each year, if necessary. There are a couple things I see: (1) People would rather have a higher monthly rate, if they know it's a fixed price. Nobody likes surprises, especially when it comes to bills. (2) You are basically cutting your own throat by doing something like this. Why would you go install a customer that may be a $15/mo customer (because they only check email) compared with installing a $29/mo customer? It's the same amount of time, equipment, customer support, tower rent, AP, etc. If you have people that are using more than a "fair" amount of bandwidth, then charge them more or ask them to leave... but there's no reason to completely remodel your pricing structure because of a few customers. Travis Microserv Scott Reed wrote: Half my customers have pulled less than 1G since April 16 or so when I started tracking it. I'll be optimistic and think they would all do 1G per month. I don't think I am going to drop a $33 per month customer down to $2 per month. I might consider $30 base and $2/G over X/Gig, but I haven't figured out what X is, yet. Mike Hammett wrote: So what types of rates would be appropriate for a metered broadband service? It obviously depends on what your costs are. I'll just throw something out to start a conversation, not necessarily reflective of any costs. $2/gig transferred, no other costs or limits. $10 base, $1.50/gig transferred, no other limits. ---------- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
