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 To: WISPA List <wireless@wispa.org> 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. ---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [The entire original message is not included] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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