Hi, Starting an ISP costs quite a lot.
You'll need to purchase servers, lots and lots of bandwidth, hire support staff, sales, administrative etc. Although servers are 1 time payment, the other stuff costs a lot, monthly, specially for the bandwidth here in Israel. Thanks, Hetz On 7/8/07, David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here is a suggestion for us all: Since the only ISP with serious Linux support has now been chewed up by a larger fish, perhaps now is a time to consider an alternative possibility - a community ISP. One business model would be to function as a cooperative - the shareholders are all employees or customers or both. The open source development concepts could also be implemented - if you want a new feature, find a few other employees/customers who want it, develop it yourselves, receive it for no additional cost (and perhaps charge customers who did contribute to its development for using it). Can anybody estimate how big such an entity would need to be in order to be viable? Does anybody know of an existing project elsewhere of a similar nature ? David ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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