Building a Wireless ISP Network....The Opportunity

In the US, most of the people have one or morePersonnel Insurance, Asset Insurance, and
broadband access services to choose from -Process and Procedure.* Revenue and Profit -
variations of DSL from multiple vendors and cable.Covers where and how to create your income
That is if you're in a metropolitan area. For moreincluding installation, basic monthly service, custom
rural locations your choices are limited....if you haveaccess service, volume or corporate pricing, other
any at all. Therein lies an opportunity for thoseservices, business partnerships, usage based
willing to pursue it.In the rural areas of theservice, civic service, and tower leasing (or you
country, the selection is limited. Satellite is availablecould build and probvide your own).* Security
to anyone (at high cost), but between dial up andIssues - There's much to consider in this arena.
T1 there are no options for many residents.Don't overlook it.* Bandwidth issues - The access
Satellite suffers from latency, making it unsuitableline to your tower(s) is likely the critical factor to
for VoIP and some other real time Internetsuccess. Whether it's a T1 or a DS3 line. First off,
services. Some applications that should not beit probably represents your single largest
sensitive to latency (email, Web forms) willoperational cost. Next, it determines the
perform poorly or fail due to the increased packetmaximum quality of service you can
time.The traditional carriers (RBOC) and resellersprovide.Quotes you receive for bandwidth will
face a cost issue in bringing broadband service toprobably be very different in terms of cost and
outlying areas. Without a concentration of usersperformance guarantees, and should cover
the per user cost at published rates causes eitherPerformance Standards, Service Availability, Mean
a poor or negative margin. The way costTime to Respond, Mean Time to Repair, Latency,
accounting is done in larger corporations makesPacket Loss, and Jitter. To help you search for
the business case worse for a large carrier. Costthe best match provider for your bandwidth
allocations between departments for such thingsrequirements....I recommend utilizing the services
as floor space, personnel, and backend supportof an unbiased independent broker by submitting
end up as added costs rather than leveragea RFQ request to Here are some additional
opportunities. Traditional wired service will notresources that may be of benefit to those
reach outlying residents unless mandated by law,developing a WISP....or thinking of
and the trend is against this happening in the nearit.StartAWisp.comWISP CentricThere's also an
future.So the opportunity is open for a businessexcellent forum for discussion of ideas and issues
offering Internet broadband access service tobetween WISP owners and potential developers
outlying residents.Therein lies a tremendousat Final advice....think strategically taking care to
opportunity.Now....just how do you go about takingconsider the business areas hilighted above. Do
advantage of this opportunity, filling a need, andmake use of an independent unbiased broker for
building a wireless ISP network?To assist you withthe bandwidth decsion. Also, apply the resources
working through the planning and execution of thisshared here as well as any others discovered
effort here are some insights and resources youfrom your own research.Michael is the owner of
should consider:* Business Continuity Planning -FreedomFire
This isn't the technical side of the business, theCommunications....including Michael also authors
backup systems, redundant pathing, fail-over andBroadband Nation where you're always welcome
restore, or alternate location stuff. Here you'reto drop in and catch up on the latest BroadBand
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