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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: More Sidgemore on per-bit pricing
Most small ISPs cant afford to do that. Becoming a CLEC is not a $100 turnkey option. However you can get good pricing from many CLECs and then take a ATM (or even frame) T1 handoff. Pretty small barrier to entry and it let's you scale from there without having to have the equipment, lawyers and patience. I'm also thinking where this model might work well is in bldings where you can go in, drop a TNTdsl in the basement. Use existing copper to provide 1.5meg (soon 2.23meg/sec??) handoffs to each suite. Then run a frame through the local RBOCs cloud to your hub. This would allow you to start small at several bldings and scale from there. It would make sense to charge by the bit since that most likely will be your #1 cost. All the equipment can be leased including CPE side which would be some cheap PipeDSLs. At 11:03 PM -0500 12/8/98, Nathan Stratton wrote: >On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, David Diaz wrote: > >> I know this is a bit late sorry... >> >> Well what if I had a xDSL local loop from someone like Northpoint for >> something like $150 and then did the per bit model. A T1 (or even slightly >> less) for $350 starts to look rather attractive to a lot of people. > >True, but if you become a CLEC and use something like access method 5 you >can get that loop cost to around $30 and also offer voice services using >the first 4 kHz of the loop. > >-- >Check out the new CLEC mailing list at http://www.robotics.net/clec >><> >Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting >www.robotics.net [email protected] Thank you, David Diaz Chief Technical Officer Netrail, Inc email: [email protected] pager: 888-576-1018 office: 888-NETRAIL Fax: 404 522-2191 Colo facilities: Atlanta-NAP, Miami, Arlington, Chicago, San Francisco -------------------------------------------------
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