Lots of different factors. One of the biggest is how fast you are growing. We build out in spurts.
I may add 10 towers in a three month period. As soon as marketing in that area hits, growth is usually pretty fast. The second biggest factor is how slow new bandwidth is to light up. I just lit up a 1G fiber link to Dallas and the reality of it was almost 1 year from beginning to live port in my NOC. Even 50 Meg pipes around here are about 7 months from negotiation to bandwidth available. This is to a facility with 72 strands of fiber in place already. No real buildout (trench, bury). At our growth rate, we usually start negotiating at about 50% of capacity. Now that we are selling 50M and 100M+ pipes to other ISPs and organizations, I may start even earlier since bigger blocks are going at once. Hope it helps. Marco -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
