I think it comes down to not allowing that 5% of customers that are going to do the video streaming / movie watching / etc. over the internet to use your network. There is another 95% of people that just want to email and surf. Those are the customers you want. Send the others to cable or your telco and let them deal with it.
Travis Microserv Mike Hammett wrote: > 1 meg is $200. How much is 5, 10, 50, 100? Depending on the provider you > could see a sharp drop in the pricing. > > Either rates will have to go up, your customers will just be unhappy with > available options, or you'll have to go big. MANY industries have adopted > the catch phrase, "Go big or go home." I believe I said something earlier > about how I think WISPs will have to consolidate to get scale. > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > > From: Blair Davis > Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 8:50 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] Bandwidth and costs... > > > With the things that are coming, I'm starting to wounder just how the > bandwidth/pricing model is going to have to change. > > This is likely not a big deal for you urban guys, but out here in the rural > areas, bandwidth ain't cheap. > > A T1, 1.54Mb/s, costs me $700/month. > On my fiber, 1Mb/s costs me $200/month. > > These movie services look to run 2Mb/s. IPTV looks to run 500Kb/s per stream. > Just how much of this can our rural networks handle? > > The sat. services can't do this. The cellular providers can't do this. > > Most of us have our residential service priced in the $35-$45 range. > > It doesn't take a accountant to see that those numbers don't add up. > > Is per bit pricing the answer? Higher fixed monthly? Traffic > discrimination? A combination? > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > 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: wireless@wispa.org > > 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: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
