iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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 ·Comcast
| reply to elray
Re: It's called a "business opportunity" 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. |
