My personal opinion is that it would be more attractive if I got the cpe as part of a purchase of a company no matter equipment. On another note I have never had anyone wanting to buy the CPE to get out of a 1 year contract. The only thing preventing people to signup is the 99 install fee is to high but generally all people come back after a few months with the $99 in hand because they couldn't get a better deal and none would consider to pay $200+ or so for install and cpe.
/Eje Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:26:45 To: WISPA General List<wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] CPE - who buys it? Mike, Fortunately our balance sheet looks awesome too. Let me ask the question a different way: Do you think your company would be more attractive to a buyer if the CPE was owned by the company? On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Mike <m...@aweiowa.com> wrote: > Oh heck no. My balance sheet looks awesome; no debt; positive cash flow. > > Mike > > At 03:56 PM 11/8/2009, you wrote: > >Do you feel it has a negative affect on your companies value if you dont > own > >the CPE? > > > >On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Michael Baird <m...@tc3net.com> wrote: > > > > > You don't have to pay property tax on the CPE. You don't have to go > pick > > > up the device if the customer quits. You can charge the customer for > > > replacement radios. You can offer a value add-on product such as modem > > > insurance. > > > > > > Regards > > > Michael Baird > > > > I've always provided the CPE to the end user and retained ownership > as > > > part > > > > of the service. That was mostly due to the high cost of CPE in the > past. > > > > With the advent of lower CPE cost, I'm considering changing that to > where > > > > the customer buys their own CPE. I'd like to hear the pros and cons > to > > > this > > > > strategy. > > > > -RickG > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
