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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA Reviews:
 ·SONIC.NET
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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Re: It's called a "business opportunity" said by iansltx:It's not broadband, but 128/64 DSL is provided by the neighboring telephone co-op for $17.95 per month plus a phone line (maybe $15 for that), and they're highly rural. Additionally, WISP service tends to be in the $40-$50 range for a low-end plan. elray, don't know where you got the $60-$75 number from. Even satellite internet starts off cheaper than that, so no WISP in their right mind catering to residences would decide not to parovide a $50 plan...if WIldBlue is cheaper by $10/mo than decent broadband, some people won't switch... Well, if you can run a wisp profitably on lower rents, be my guest. I guess I'm not as cutthroat. Personally, I'd be happy with the 128K service.
My price reference was for the few Wisp hookups I did in southern california in Ventura and Riverside counties - all since replaced with cable or dsl. Our local fixed-wireless last charged $50 but went under at that rate. Its successor charges $100 and up - fixed wireless here, is now marketed as a telco-free/cableco-free bypass service, not a competitor, and not residential.
If, as you say, Wireless must be cheaper than WildBlue to succeed, then I guess that contradicts the testimony I read here every week, that satellite users "would gladly pay" for an alternative to Hughes, WildBlue, etc. | |
iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Comcast
| Let me put it this way: if you sell your service for more than $50 at the entry level, you're missing out on potential WB converts because your service is more expensive than WB.
For the biz-class WISPS, charging high rates is fine. However if you want to hit the residential market you have to price yourself around $40-$50 per month, the average for cable and DSL in town. Otherwise only high-end users will use your system...the low-end users, as long as they know halfway what they're doing, are more profitable if you've got expensive backhaul, since they won't such down as many bits.
From what I've seen around here, WISPS can survive perfectly charging $40 per month for their basic tier of service. The TExas market may well be different than others, but I'm seeing $50 per month as the baseline in most places that I look. Coincidence, considering rates for WildBlue? I think not. | |
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