Sort of but not totally. For example, if you are rural and don’t have wireline competitors like cable, low-cost fiber, or DSL that can deliver 25-40Mbps, then you can be more competitive with commercial. In that case, You can charge $300 or more for 25Mbps and up. In suburbs and city environments for the most part, cable providers are delivering 25/5for about $145, 50/10 for about $250, and 100/20 for $350. If your last mile as a WISP is off a PTMP vertical asset like a tower, not only don’t you have the technology to guarantee the 100Mbps for example, you don’t have a lot of room on your AP to deliver 50 or 25Mbps. It’s just not profitable at those levels if you use a standard tower based model in those environments, even assuming you have little interference which is another issue. You also can’t push low-cost business as an option since even 25Mbps DSL is only $100 or less.
With residential you not only have more options, you also have a much higher density of users to get a great return on the vertical asset. That being said, there are still opportunities in commercial using other designs. Although there are still pockets of commercial where you might be able to provide a lower cost model if the only other option the businesses have is ADSL , for the most part, we are now targeting businesses that are willing to pay $350 per month or more. Rory From: Af [mailto:af-bounces+rory=triadwireless....@afmug.com] On Behalf Of That One Guy via Af Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:33 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] 477 commercial/residential This choice is based on how you market your services is it not? -- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
