Our own bandwidth?

[TheREV]

A bit of lateral thinking is needed here.

Say 5000 ADSL users are prepared to pay R100 per month over and above their current costs (refundable) for, say, 6 months. And say 500 ADSL users (maybe companies) are prepared to pay R1000 per month for the same period.

That's 1 million ront a month for 6 months - or a total of 6 million ront - plus a few extras interest.

Could we not set up our own broadband company for that? Anyone done the math?

The people paying could then either have shares in the venture, or be paid out at a future date.

Anyone?

 

[noswal]

I dont think this is getting attention in this forum area, try the general adsl area.

rpm is setting myadsl up as a company so maybe we all become shareholders

 

[schitz011]

There is a site doing something similar in the US. Clubbing together of like minded people to buy a certain thing that individually they can't afford. Timeshare of goods in a way.

I like the way this idea sounds, however I think you'd have to be rather careful about who administers the money, what sort of returns/benefits contributors could expect etc..

If you put together a business plan and did all the math and made a good proposal then you'd get more ppl interested I think.

PM me and we can talk more.

The only real stumbling block as far as I can see is Telkom and the SAT3 pipe. If you can bypass that (which AFAIK is goverment regulated) then it might have legs.

Definatly worth persuing though IMHO.

(excuse the spelling )

 

[mirco30za]

If you put a buissnes plan together PM me

 

[TheREV]

Ok. I will seriously look into this. Anyone with comments or crits, please pm me or post here.