Why wouldn't you just put up your own AP's and service the same area
rather than give that customer away to the competition?
I would spend $5k and put up my own tower before I turn a "potential"
customer away to the competition. I've done it many times over the years
and it has always paid off. Once one person is connected, they tell
their neighbors about it. Pretty soon an AP that was put up for a single
customer has 10 or 20 customers on it.
Doesn't seem to make business sense to me. Plus when they need tech
support, how do you troubleshoot the competitors AP's? How do you do RF
link tests and packet loss tests at 10:00PM when the customer is on the
phone?
Travis
Microserv
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] WISP Peering
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
Two of my competitors just sat down for lunch and worked out a
network sharing agreement. It's a handshake deal at this point though.
Basically we carved up a hilltop laying out coverage zones for each
of us, and we set a price for using each other's ap's.
Marlon
Hey I think thats a good thing you've done there Marlon, getting
along and even doing business with your competitors.
Yeah. It's something that the three of us have already been doing for
a couple of years. We sell on each other's ap's at the same price.
The only catch is that each of us has to live under the bw, and bit
cap rules of the other guys network vs. our own. But that seems
perfectly fair to me.
We also handle all tech support for the cusotmer. The customer should
NEVER contact the other isp. We have however, shown up together at
problematic customers and worked jointly to fix any issues.
But where do you think the line would be drawn in respect to anti
competitive practices?
I'm not sure. We've not had that come up yet.
Did you have a specific situation in mind?
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