My thought is that you are unlikely to get much of a response from potential customers, although whatever response you did get would be a strong incentive to any WISP in the area, and it is certainly doable, Mikrotik could easily handle it. My reasoning is that all of my AP's broadcast a domain name which I would think would be a strong clue to anybody looking for service as to where to look for contact information, but I get very few calls as a result of broadcasting that domain name. Granted, having an informational page would be a better advertisement, but I can't see it being that much better. I might try it on some of my own APs.
Have you considered (or tried) contacting WISP's that are in proximity to your towers? Do you have any towers close enough to me to do me any good? John Vogel Blake Bowers wrote: > I really don't want the hassle of providing the internet > service - where to get the internet pipe, taking care of > the customers, etc. Not my core business, and not one > I feel like I can provide well. > > I was thinking that adjoining area WISP's would be > able to provide a pipe, either by their connections with > regional providers, microwave backhaul, etc, they could > take care of installs to expand their coverage area, etc. > > I want an enviroment where both the WISP and US > can make some money. > > Now, your a smart guy. If a tower owner in a town > near your coverage area was able to bring to you a list > of people that would be likely to sign up for service IF > you had service available in that area, would you not look > really hard at that? > > Me, I would be all over it like a fat kid on cake.... > > > Don't take your organs to heaven, > heaven knows we need them down here! > Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Scrivner" <j...@scrivner.com> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:15 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Promotion > > > Why not go ahead and sell them the service over this? Just have it > take them to the signup page and process their credit card, add to > radius, activate service? > Scriv > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Blake Bowers <bbow...@mozarks.com> wrote: > >> I got towers. Lots of them. Many don't have any kind >> of wireless service anywhere close, some don't have any >> kind of high speed service of any kind. >> >> I would like to put up on some of them, for a fairly short >> period of time, something like a hotspot, say a cheap router >> that people can connect to, they see a splash page that says >> >> "If you are intersted in HIGH SPEED WIRELESS service, please >> call 800-467-2346" >> >> Then we could log the calls, take their information, and if enough >> calls were recieved we could start talking to WISPS in adjoining >> areas to see if someone might be interested in providing service >> there. >> >> A market study if you will. >> >> Who makes a cheap box that I could hook to an OMNI with >> such a thing? >> Don't take your organs to heaven, >> heaven knows we need them down here! >> Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. >> >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > > -- John Vogel - jvo...@vogent.net http://www.vogent.net 620-754-3907 Vogel Enterprises LLC Information Services Provider serving S.E. Kansas -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
