10g residential CPE

Mon Dec 28 19:26:51 UTC 2020

Darin,

Our business support and residential support is the same department.  I 
have to pay those people to be in the office either way so it doesn't 
cost me any "more" to provide support for the residences. Yes, walking 
Grandma through getting her email can sometimes be a chore but that 
person is on the payroll whether he/she is helping Grandma or sitting 
there chatting with his/her co-worker.  If we dumped all the residential 
customers we would still have the same cost structure we do now.

Again, it's been free for the last 7 years at this point.  I've never 
been one to really do what I "should" anyway.

Aaron

On 12/28/2020 11:48 AM, Darin Steffl wrote:
> Aaron,
>
> The "Free" service doesn't cover your cost of support which is much 
> higher for residential than any business customer. Our residential 
> customers call at least 15x more often compared to business customers 
> compared on a 1:1 ratio.
>
> I honestly can't fathom providing free residential service because we 
> make enough money on the business side of things. You should be 
> charging something, at least $20-30 per month.
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:15 AM Aaron Wendel 
> <aaron at wholesaleinternet.net <mailto:aaron at wholesaleinternet.net>> wrote:
>
>     The $300 covers the equipment and the time to send someone out to a
>     house to install it.  If $300 is too much you can pay in 12
>     installments
>     of $25.
>
>     The TIK alone costs us about $250.
>
>     Aaron
>
>
>     On 12/27/2020 5:04 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 12/26/20 20:48, Darin Steffl wrote:
>     >
>     >> Aaron,
>     >>
>     >> One simple question. Why on earth would you offer free internet
>     >> service? How and why? Your site show 1 Gig symmetrical for free
>     when
>     >> you should be a minimum of $65 per month to be competitive.
>     >
>     > They also ask for no monthly fee after a single payment of US$300.
>     >
>     > Considering the 2Gbps package costs US$49.95, you'd guess they'd
>     value
>     > the 1Gbps service at, say US$27/month, give or take.
>     >
>     > So that US$300 provides a bit of coverage, perhaps 1 year, in which
>     > time they'd have likely upgraded the customer.
>     >
>     > Mark.
>
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