There are a few considerations to make before heading down this path. 1. What are you selling against? DSL, Cable, 3G, Satellite 2. What speeds are available via these services 3. What is your terrain like - trees, hills, valley, desert, etc 4. What is the max distance you are looking to cover - 1, 5, 10 miles? 5. What speeds do you want to deliver - 1.5, 3.0, 10, 20 Mbps 6. You said symmetrical speeds - why? Pretty uncommon for residential service 7. Are you prepared to get little sleep, give up most of your free time for at least the forst 2-3 months? 8. If you are doing this to break even, don't bother. You are only doing your customers a disservice because you will get tired/bored/sick of losing money and shut it down. 9. If you want to make this profitable, plan on trying to get some business customers - they are worth muvh more.
Jerry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of finkle dinkle Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 8:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WISPA] Becoming a Wisp So, I've got space in a building in So. Cal with a lot of neighbors with crappy connections. In the beginning, I wanted to bring in a gig PTP from the datacenter 12 miles away... I'm not a salesman, I think with the bandwidth I have available at the DC + the of the PTP, I could've made everyone in the building happy, at least 20 tenants if I could convince them.. doubt I could. Anyway, I have potential access to the roof, I'd have to ask. Are there any laws if I want to sell service ? If I want to provide service to lets just say 50 clients (not in the building but through wireless), are there devices that dont have to rely on LOS ? I'm just trying to understand if this all went along well, how many devices would I need to mount up on the roof to support 20-50 clients externally with the devices and which devices.. I'm looking to sell the bandwidth for a relatively low price, undercut wimax and not strictly looking for profit but looking to be the point guy for other tech operations for these potential clients.. Also, to the people who have good access to bandwidth or even not.. how much are you looking at from all your cost to what you actually charge (not including administrative) but lets assume your bandwidth costs are 8k/month with the point to point to the datacenter + 1000mbit commit. I know I could do better but what are we looking at here, if the total cost to get the bandwidth, less the equipment to my office building at 8 bux a meg, how much should I be selling it ? any recommendations ? I do not want to be a company like towerstream where I sell 8 megs for 800/MRC, i'm looking to charge more like 25 bux per meg... Is my model right or wrong ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
