$500/customer doesn't seem that bad. Someone tried to get me to pay $1500/customer for a network that needed a lot of work.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "MDK" <rea...@muddyfrogwater.us> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:08 PM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> 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/
