10 months only if the $49.95 is pure profit. Presumably the ROI is really more like 40 months assuming you keep the customer for that long. That or I'm having a brain melt-down and confusing something.
There was just recently (in the past week or so) a long discussion of valuations on the WISPA members list. You might look in the archives for a range of ways to look at the question. Chuck On Dec 16, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Chuck Profito wrote: > Well at $49.95 monthly your ROI is 10months....will he finance out of > income? > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of MDK > Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:09 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] This comes up again and again - value of network > > There's a guy started a small network in an area I serve, but quite distant > from me, and he's wanting to get out. > > He offered to sell me his customers and his network, and then finally he > quoted me a price for his network. Not "the customers" but just "the > network" and the customer owns his own cpe. I buy the network and inherit > > his customers - that was the "deal". > > It works out to $500 / customer. > > For infrastructure, that seems... well... REALLY high to me. > > It consists MOSTLY of UBNT stuff and some bandwidth controls, etc, I don't > really understand. It's mostly bridged, and has no public IP's, it was > apparently NAT'd to a cable connection somewhere. > > Looking at my rural deployments and the approximate cost- even of the > solar/wind powered sites... I'm well under $100/customer for network > infrastructure outside of the CPE. > > Am I the one way different, or is he? Or, is this wide range.... normal? > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > 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/ -------------- Chuck Bartosch Clarity Connect, Inc. 200 Pleasant Grove Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-8268 "When the stars threw down their spears, and water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile, His work to see? Did He who made the Lamb make thee?" >From William Blake's Tiger!, Tiger! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
