I'm seeing the same thing. I can literally track it month to month and show the bill and useage going up each month by far more than the growth of our customer base.
In 3 months I've added 25% to my useage. KA-POW! That's one serious bunch of data useage. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <o...@odessaoffice.com> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:58 AM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] 2010: One Question for WISPs > LOL > > What kind of question is that? big grin > > The short answer is, it depends. > > I'm much more excited about the technology in use. I'm much more excited > about how many customers we can take care of with the same amount of staff > etc. Technologically life is better than ever. > > I'm not excited about usage. This netflix thing is looking like it'll > have > a bigger impact than Napster had in the past. With the new usage there is > NO incentive for the customer to purchase new faster services like there > was > when we went from dialup to broadband. > > My bill for upstream went up by nearly 10% last month alone! This based > on > the 95% usage mechanism we're billed for. It's up by almost twice over > the > last 12 months. This in spite of a 50% DROP in per mb/s costs from that > particular provider. > > Unless costs go WAY down or we find a way to bill the content providers > for > the traffic that's being generated I'm not sure what will happen over the > next 3 to 5 years. Per bit billing only works if everyone (or nearly > everyone) does it. > > Xbox is also a problem these days. No other gaming system out there is as > picky with the network design or performance. Not even close. Xbox > requires very nearly perfect connections between the gamers or there are > significant lag issues that drive the gamers nuts. > > I don't see any trend in the content providers giving a rats behind about > what their crappy encryption mechanisms etc. do to the transport people. > I > don't see any improvements on the horizon. > > On a good note though, this has to be just KILLING the big players. At > least we have a somewhat captive audience, often a forgiving and tech > savvy > one at that. People who "just don't get it" don't often last long in the > sticks, they have to be able to hire help for everything they need so they > end up in the cities :-). > > If we last the next 5 years I think we'll be in good shape. But for the > first time since I've been in business I'm worried about the business > models. I just can't find one that works for us and the customer. > > laters, > marlon > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patrick Leary" <ple...@apertonet.com> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 8:47 AM > Subject: [WISPA] 2010: One Question for WISPs > > >> Happy New Year folks. One simple multiple choice question: >> >> For 2010, are you more or less optimistic than you were in 2009? >> >> A - Much more >> B - Somewhat more >> C - Same >> D - More pessimistic >> >> If you'd care to explain your answer, that's be great. >> >> Thank, >> >> Patrick >> >> >> Patrick Leary >> Aperto Networks >> 813.426.4230 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/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
