They may bring in $13 a day, but how much goes out? Take an average T-1 monthly cost of $480 and divide it by 31 and you get an recurring outgoing cost of one single component at $15 a day.
Add staff, marketing, the kickback to Starbucks, IBM Global Services, Insurance, marketing etc. It starts to look like a very ugly business model. The sooner Starbucks buys out the network from T-Mobile and gives away free access to anyone with a Starbucks Coffee Club card, the better. Cheers Nigel Nigel Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joejava.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jon baer Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [nycwireless] T-Mobile brings in $13 bucks a day from techdirt: -snip- Glenn Fleishman is looking at the numbers and figures that T-Mobile is bringing in approximately $13/day per hotspot they're running. Not particularly overwhelming - especially when their "daypass" rates are $10/day. As Glenn points out, they're a long way from making WiFi pay. Meanwhile, Schlotzsky's continues to talk about how much more business they're doing thanks to free WiFi. Which seems like the better business model to you? -snip- http://wifinetnews.com/archives/003136.html pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
