That was a fun excercise Charles! I'm glad you're sharing it! Good input from many on this list too! When is the last time it was updated?
-RickG On 4/4/07, Charles Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For curiosities sake, attached is a financial model of a WISP that I worked with several people on this and other listservs to put together a few years ago (2004/2005) -- it shows the base startup WISP model...a startup WISP model using leasing...and a startup WISP model from a preexisting ISP Keep in mind -- a financial model is just a model, will you be able to poke holes, find faults, etc with it...probably, just use it as a reference point Feel free to criticize, it'd be fun to update -Charles ------------------------------------------- WiNOG Wireless Roadshows Coming to a City Near You http://www.winog.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless ISP's (leasing) This is all thru our company. We own the equipment when the lease is over. Right now, after doing this for 5 years, we still have about 85% of our original CPE in the field. Travis Microserv Peter R. wrote: > Who's credit is used? > Does the customer do the leasing? > Are they signing a lease agreement? > If so, what happens if they have bad credit? > > - Peter > > Travis Johnson wrote: > >> And thus my argument (and proof of concept) for leasing the CPE... >> going on 5 years now with leasing and we could do 1,000 installs per >> month (assuming we could get the man-power, vehicles, tools, etc.) if >> we wanted. >> >> The other difference is we aren't using VC money or ANY outside >> investments... when we install a new customer, $39 per month is our >> starting package. $10 per month goes to pay for the CPE equipment. I >> don't have to come up with ANY money out-of-pocket, AND the >> installers time, vehicle expenses, gas, tools, etc. are paid for by >> the customer. So, it doesn't cost me a dime to install a new >> customer. :) >> >> Travis >> Microserv > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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