With all the hype being generated by the stimulus bill, we have been approached by a multitude of third party financial organizations that have a renewed interest in potentially financing rural broadband...now, specifically, for WISPs, in the past, equipment leasing has been a very popular option for financing, but in looking at our numbers over the past year, I've noticed a marked decline in the amount of leasing that we do - that said, I have the following questions for the listserv about financing
Assuming that WISPs are still need to buy equipment... 1. Are you able to just purchase equipment out of cash-flow organically generated from operations 2. Have you gone to more traditional forms of money (e.g., bank / SBA / RUS loans)? 3. Are you doing more vendor leasing programs (e.g., Motorola 3% financing deal) 4. Have you not been able to borrow money due to the credit crunch (e.g., not deploying as aggressively) 5. Are you holding off on deployments because of the economy 6. Have you gone to Agility...<cough> Louie the loanshark =) Or any other thoughts / comments on this topic? -Charles -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
