Yeah, 50 subs on a 900 and 100+ on a 2.4 FSK was perfectly fine, then Netflix decided to change their business model from mailing DVDs to streaming.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 8:02 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > I hope they were doing wholesale dialup, not running their own access > servers. We dumped dialup in 2009. It was a race to the bottom, the going > price I think was $6.95/mo and if you were at $6.96 you got no customers. > And you had to spend half your revenue on Google ads to get the customers. > > I think we still have 2 900 MHz customers on one Cambium AP. I can't > believe WISPs used to have like 50 subs per 900 MHz AP, at like $50/mo > ARPU. And those weren't even the 450i APs, they were FSK or Ubiquiti. > Well, smartgrid took care of that. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Dev > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2024 6:05 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Valuing obsolete equipment that still works > > The good news is they recently retired the two last dial-up customers! I > didn’t know that still existed. > > They finally migrated the last customer off their 900MHz, I think. > > The rest of the diligence should be a fun-filled mystery I’m guessing. > > > On Nov 22, 2024, at 3:59 PM, t...@3dsc.co wrote: > > > > Yeah almost all the 450 except some of the very first versions are CBRs > capable. If they still have pmp320s install there is a small chance that it > is running legaly, but not likely I had a customer that had an extended > grandfatherd license that was allowed to continue for a period of time > while they were transitioning. However its not likely. > > > > In this situation I would typicaly value these customers as negative for > asuming the liability or at least they would be removed from the valuation > I would recomend requireing them to be disabled before closing the deal. > > > > > > On 11/22/24 5:48 PM, Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm fairly certain that all 450 hardware is CBRS capable, so that's > just going to be a matter of upgrading firmware and getting everything > properly configured and registered. > >> I don't think any wimax gear is CBRS capable. > >> At least some (probably most) LTE stuff can be upgraded to CBRS. > >> If it's a couple of old wimax APs with a small number of customers, > it's probably not that big of a deal, if it's hundreds of customers... > yikes. > >> On Fri, Nov 22, 2024, 3:57 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com <mailto: > khoh...@kwom.com>> wrote: > >> If it is Cambium 450, we switched all of ours from Part 90 / NN to > >> CBRS and I don't remember having to change any hardware. Other 3.65 > >> equipment like a Purewave WIMAX system and some Ubiquiti stuff and > >> another brand I don't recall, those were forklift upgrades. > >> That was like 5 years ago though. I know because my CPI cert is > >> about to expire. > >> ---- Original Message ---- > >> From: "Dev" __ > >> Sent: 11/22/2024 3:35:58 PM > >> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" __ > >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Valuing obsolete equipment that still works > >> Also, we’d have to figure out how long it would take to swap them, > >> trying to get a count of how much of a job this might be, i.e. how > >> many subs. > >> > On Nov 22, 2024, at 1:31?PM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists > >> > <jeffl...@att.net <mailto:jeffl...@att.net>> wrote: > >> > > >> > If it’s 3.65 that isn’t SAS capable, you are buying a large legal > >> > liability. > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > > >> > Jeff > >> > > >> > Jeff Broadwick > >> > CTIconnect > >> > 312-205-2519 Office > >> > 574-220-7826 Cell > >> > jbroadw...@cticonnect.com <mailto:jbroadw...@cticonnect.com> > >> > > >> >> On Nov 22, 2024, at 4:26?PM, Dev <d...@logicalwebhost.com > >> >> <mailto:d...@logicalwebhost.com>> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> ?I think some may be in the old 3.6GHz, which is more of an issue > >> >> because it gets in the way of the new 450 3.6GHz radio channel > >> >> plan, so hoping not too many subs out there. > >> >> > >> >>> On Nov 22, 2024, at 12:11?PM, Steve Jones > >> >>> <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com <mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> > >> >>> wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> 0 value on equipment > >> >>> acquisition value on customer > >> >>> cost of doing business on swap > >> >>> > >> >>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 12:32?PM Dev <d...@logicalwebhost.com > >> >>> <mailto:d...@logicalwebhost.com>> wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> Looking at purchasing a WISP that has old wireless equipment > >> >>> that’s no longer supported but happy customers connected to > >> >>> it. 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