Caveat (before the explanation...how do you like that): I am deploying
Tranzeo CPEs, and these guys are a Tranzeo reseller.
Look at RidgeviewTel at http://www.dboss-online.com/. I'm in a growing mood
right now, but I don't want someone else to own my network for a long time.
Their system will do your billing, and if you send your billing through them
(which will allow them to take their CPE lease payments off the top), they
will keep sending CPEs to you. You have to give up some control, and let
them make some money on the arrangement, but it works for a growing phase
when you can't backroll it yourself.
I'm leasing CPE (making payments, really) for 12 months then I own it. At
one point, when I want to slow things down, I'll go back to purchasing the
CPEs then 12 months later I don't owe anything for the CPEs.
I've currently got their billing in place. I've also signed up for their
WISP services (being implemented now), which will give me 1st level
telephone tech support (reboot your router, [EMAIL PROTECTED], help with e-mail
client, etc), as well as 24-hour NOC monitoring, provisioning (bandwidth
management), billing integration (auto-shut-off of non-payinig account),
installer scheduling, and a slew of little details. I'm hoping this, along
with a local support backup dude, will finally give me that fishing vacation
without my cell phone.
Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
350 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-5555
541-998-5599 fax
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:55 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] For those in business just about a year...
I agree, if I had the capital to keep going. :(
NEED to bring in financing, and I've done all that work by myself. Need
people to help grow it faster / further, and that all takes $$$ too.
R
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Lonnie Nunweiler
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:19 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] For those in business just about a year...
If you broke even but had a partner who did not help very much, then
my feeling is you should just stay on the course you have and the
profit will happen. If you bring in new money and new people my
feeling is you stand a chance you'll just end up with more of the
same. Trying to meet too many expectations is not a good thing and
ruins your focus.
Lonnie
On 2/20/07, Rick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yep, rural NJ. Northern. ALL hills, ALL trees.
Doin ok so far, about break even on 300k over 4 yrs, but need a payoff,
and
now I'm lookin at some private investors who are interested.
I need to get a feel on realistic projections.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Joe Laura
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:10 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] For those in business just about a year...
I wish we would have had funding. Just hard work, 7 days a week, 14 hour
days until things started rolling. Eventually made ends meet and then
actually started seeing some profits at some point. Advertising is a
mystery. Its like certain wireless gear. It might work in some areas but
not
others. Are you in a rural area?
Superior Wireless
New Orleans,La.
www.superior1.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>; "'Principal WISPA Member
List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:51 PM
Subject: [WISPA] For those in business just about a year...
> Couple questions for you:
>
> 1) How did you get funding ?
>
> 2) How many customers are you up to so far ?
>
> 3) How many installations per month / week / day ?
>
> 4) How did they find you ? Advertising methods...
>
>
> I'm in the middle of rebuilding my company from the disaster it's been
in
> because of a deadbeat partner, and these questions (and more) came up
> at
a
> meeting of the minds tonight. I figured no better place to get the
answer
> than existing WISPs.
>
> Offlist, if need be. This will be private for me only, just for
> information.
>
> thanks
>
> R
>
>
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