Let me get that report and see.

But Kula if you want to start a biz to sell at cheaper prices, when will you make money (profit)?

Isn't the idea of starting the biz to make money?

Cooks kularaha said
I'm thinking of starting up a small ISP which will focus on three things:

1 Realistic pricing

not cheap

Cooks,

lets get thru this hogwash youve swallowed from the ISPs:

1. last mile cost: oh pls, give me a break!!!! A wimax transmitter on a building is expensive?????
2. Ops centre: Go see one and see the second hand equipment they have there
3. Redundancy: Oh pls, with lines down more often than up, what redundancy?
4. Ops cost: Network admins, available dime a dozen due to recent global crisis, how many do you want?
5. Marketing cost: this I agree....

Curent pricing is crazy....how can one ISP be at 1000/= while other at 3000/= and another at 6000/= for same line speed????

With margins of upto 45% EBITDA....you think they are cheap?

kula- i like the dreamworld you live in.

the main reason that prices are different is that the line speed IS NOT THE SAME. There are sharing ratios as well as last mile constraints.

a zuku 512 does not = a AK 512 doe not equal a AK home 512 does not equal a UUNET 512!

the sharing is what happened to popote who had a 10 MB link and sold 512 for 5K. the first guys had fun and good speeds because it was not congested. At that time a 10 MB link was about a million a month. When they reached breakeven point at 200 customers they had sold 100MB. Assuming only 30 % were using at any one time they had 30MB traffic on a 10 MB link. The result is what you see today.

if you have real questions please ask...