What you are missing...is most of us can't get the funding to build that Backhaul required and provide CPE for 100,000 CPE up front. Ok, sorry, I see you are talking about Cali!
Many of us are covering rural areas that the local telco is not yet....and if they do...they are getting subsidized by the government to do it! If you want to know the real solution to the problem...go back about 10 years ago when the USA Congress got rid of line sharing and instituted all the fiber rules that left 90% of the ISP's out in the cold because of Congress's rules. The Congress funded all the copper and most of the fiber deployments to these places that the telco's promised to build out. We have been picking up stragglers (ones even gov't funded monopolist's won't get to, because it cost them too much) for years. Now, make a lease agreement for that crap that any one would agree too. I mean having to depend on the government from month to month and their decisions. Most of you deal with publicly traded companies....deal with a few govt subsidized(rural telcos...they are getting 80% of that USF fee you are paying on you city telephone fees!) I have already heard that one area we cover is getting Obama's funds to build out FTTH in an area that has Population in July 2007: 1,892. Now! Deal with that. Scottie It's a freaking Circus act here! Scottie ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: char...@thewybles.com Reply-To: char...@thewybles.com, WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 17:07:54 +0000 >All these talks about financing have been very interesting. > >Let's say I wanted to start a wisp to serve a medium city in southern >california (population 100,000 or so). > >I can get access to gigabit fiber for a 1 time cross connect fee of 2500 and >a monthly cost of 1500. There are a few spots in town that would have Los to >large portions of the city. > >I'm thinking 100,000 to cover initial costs (cpe/ap/ tower rental/mapping >/spectrum analysis/marketing/sales). > >What are the pieces I'm missing? (I would use contractors for the initial >build, and onforce.com for tech rolls). Anyone have a spreadsheet that has >all the various pieces? > > >Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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/ >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $30.00/mth. Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
