> > Frankly, the converse of this is also true... Maybe our services are > 'under-priced' to begin with ? We, because of our cut to the bone > business model of making little to no profit, choose to sell service at > a price that takes a lot of factors into consideration and we may have > 'mis-calculated' on the shifting consumer behavior ? >
I've been saying that since 1997 when I was paying $3500 per T1 and I bought my first Alott box. The problem is people cant pay for what they use and depend on the over-subscription model. > B. Cost of Communication Services Consumed by folks will go UP. (I say > Communication Cost, not Internet Cost.. go back into time, 20 years ago > I was spending about $70 on Phone service, $35 on cable Tv... Today, it > is something like $35 voip/Home Phone + $50 Internet DSL + $70 Cable Tv > Service + $250 Cell Phone + data Plan..... Over time this will > consolidate, and the Telco's and cable Co's are fighting to keep as big > as a share the can off it... Plus there are other pay for services HD / > DvR / Special Programing etc etc that can kick in another $100 / month > from the subscribers... > Can anyone make any money providing all that for $100 or less? > Unfortunately, the WISP's may not have "other addons" to make money from > .... personally, when ever I do the un-adulterated business math, I keep > coming up with conclusions that .. when Gross Revenue from a Subscriber > hits south of $50/month, it is very difficult to turn healthy profit.. > when it starts to approach $100/month, things start looking a lot more > reasonable and business like. This is very much true for the Cable Co's > and the Telco's as well. > We do have one feature - upload bandwidth. I havent marketed it yet but with Facebook and such being so popular I hear people grumbling about upload speed on their DSL & cable. > -- > -RickG
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