 calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | reply to djrobsd
Re: How are they gonna pay for this? Let's put some rough numbers on this. Winnipeg has about 650,000 people, so this would mean an investment of $375-400 per person. With an average household size of 3 (per demographic info on a Winnipeg info website) this means an average investment of about $1200 per household. If the company has a 10% cost of funds, paying the debt service is $120/yr./hsehld if they signup everybody, or $10/month.
Figuring from there is easy. If they sign up half, it's $20/mo. If they get a third, $30/mo., etc.
If they get 25% of Winnipeg to signup for phone and broadband over this system, $40 of that monthly package would go to debt service--and the gravy from offering wildly improved cable (digital, PPV, etc.) isn't counted here. Better penetration only increases the pleasure.
It's doable. Frankly, I hope they make it.
Calvoiper
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