Exactly! WISPs need to build their percieved value in the eyes of other ISPs. It all has to start somewhere. One way is to start peering at any level, with who ever you can, regardless of whether its really again. One measurement is traffic volume, unfortunately, most WISPs aren't favors comparing their low volume the he high volume of their desired peer, regardless of the ratio. One measure is a national foot print interconnected or not. If you have atleast 3 diverse interonnected national POPs, you can argue that your network will carry the traffic the majority of the path, not the upstream/peer's network. Most small WISPs dont go hear because... Internet transit is usually pretty cheap, meaning cheaper to pay for, than to pay to keep 3 diverse NOCs operational.
But even if small, I believe WISPs do deserve to get paid just as much as the next guy. But we have to sell that value well enough that a prospective buyer is willing to buy it. My opinion is that providers really need to be at the 1Gig level to justify colocation and peering. But getting paid peering is not a given, it still then takes work to justify why one should get paid. I personally, think that WISPs have a very strong justification.... That we serve a unique market that other ISP cant serve, which resources to serve are in shortage. Its a market that we can successfully deliver to content providers, that content providers can uniquely profit from. They should be able to justify paying us. I like to point to AOL, one of the big success stories on getting other companies to pay them for access to eyeballs. The got comanies to pay them billion, and the speed was only dialup. In a free market, we'd have the right to explore what our value is or isn't. I agree fully with Fred's insightful comment. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:51 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] From ATT public policy blog- Comcast vs Level3 >I guess what I don't understand about this whole thing is how much > traffic one ISP is sending another. So, if you send me too much > traffic, you must pay. I think nearly every WISP on this list is > receiving more traffic than we are sending AND we are paying for it. > Why are they not paying us? > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
