We are still making money on dial-up... with over 600 accounts still
active (at $19.95/month) it still provides a good revenue stream. ;)
Travis
Microserv
George wrote:
I agree, now is not the time to sell. We are now just getting going .
Soon everyone will have to have a broadband connection and that means we
should be at least able to double our sizes quickly.
Dial up is almost dead. Couldn't be soon enough.
Travis Johnson wrote:
I would disagree. We are adding 120-140 new subs every month in an area
that has 200,000 population total (25,000 square miles). We have cable,
DSL, 2.5ghz licensed WiMax, two other WISPs (using Canopy), etc. We are
also not the cheapest service in town.
You have to provide some value to your service. We offer local support,
symmetrical speeds (upload is the same as download), free wireless
firewall/router with install, real static IP address, etc.
Travis
Microserv
Tom Warfield wrote:
You forgot satellite which is picking up steam.
Honestly.....
Now is the time to sell! (hence one of the reasons I sold last month.)
Unless your servicing very rural area with almost no population.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hammett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:44 PM
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Subject: [WISPA] Future
What do you see as the future of our industry over the next 5 years?
AT&T is expanding U-Verse (will this be available outside of town?)
Verizon is expanding FiOS (will this be available outside of town?)
Cable will be using DOCSIS 3
3G will gain more steam
WiMAX will have larger and larger shares of the market
700 MHz will be in use possibly for data communications by the big guys
My banker asked me, so I figured I'd see what other's opinions are.
My thought is that the big guys mentioned above will continue to avoid the niche that we currently serve and we'll be able to provide better services with more spectrum (5.4 GHz, additional 2.5 GHz, 3.6 GHz, possibly TV white spaces) and WiMAX.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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