This is only what I've thought about improving services between WISPs, Quality of services (sentech) sucks ass... so here goes...
This is my opinion, Megawan stirred interest in other people who wanted to start their own business. There IS big money in something like this, but people, more too often, rush into things before thinking things through. This leads to downtime or ineffecient bandwidth.
Here is what I would do. Get ex-Megawan employees in as consultants (or hire them even) Megawan, to me, made ground breaking strides as a WISP, and they learnt alot of things and made alot of mistakes, information which can be invaluable to any WISP.
Another thing I would do, is collaborate with other WISP's. If I were "noone's WISP.com/jouma" I would try and deal with the other WISP's out there, and ask them to link up via my towers or something. That way I increase my footprint with less cost to me (and vica versa) rolling out much faster and cutting down on maintanence costs.
Hell, the collaboration could become a thing where all WISPS come together and buy bandwidth in bulk, allocate chunks of bandwidth to each WISP and manage it at a central point. Now you have a highly franschise-able oppertunity where Mr.x can put up a few towers in places not covered, link through the existing towers (increasing his footprint and potential customer base) AND receive affordable bandwidth. Then selling connections like there is no tomorrow. Looking only after his towers, and not having to worry about bandwidth costs etc.
This would be ideal situation. Because then you have, say, 5 independant wisp's using the same backbone, working in unicen instead of against each other, providing the best service for their clients because they have the buying power re: bandwidth and it's not up to only one WISP to setup towers, thus less money to roll out new towers.
They can even go as far as charge each wisp owner a monthly "rent" for towers that is not his which some of his clients connects to. That rent money can then be put in a pool to buy more bandwidth or even put up new towers.
If you can think of a good example, Steers and Debonairs. They both started out as independant shops and is now owned by a big company (Steers ltd if i'm not mistaken) All their raw materials are made and distrobuted by the company, but each shop is owned and run by independant people.
They have to buy the raw materials from Steers Ltd (and pay initial franshising fee's) but they take home all the profits at the end of the day. Steers Ltd in turn makes profit on the raw materials they sell to their franshisee's.
See my point? In south africa, unfortunatly, there is ALOT of people who want to do their own thing and f@ck the rest. a very good example on THAT would be the number of political parties and churches in this country. There was a joke once, "What do 3 south african's do on a deserted island? Start 5 political parties and 23 churches"
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