Owning Your Own Adsl Service?

Dexxa · 23rd June 2005

Hi Guys,

I have seen a few hosting companys providing adsl to thier users and im thinking of doing the same but i havent a clue where to start, I know abit about adsl,

Im woundering if you guys could help me with this matter, All i need to know is what stuff i need to be able to do this and whats the best way to go about starting an adsl service or anything you might think that might help me

Ricky · 23rd June 2005

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Dexxa · 23rd June 2005

Thanx

I will look into it

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Originally Posted by ServerCityUK

BT do a wholesale service and they can look after provisioning/billing if required. Speak to a rep at BT Ignite.

Schumie · 7th October 2005

DON'T DO IT

But on the other hand, speak to BT WholeSale and find out the costs. Upfront costs are pretty high, gone are the days of being able to get nice fat cheques with very little outlay. The onus is very much more on the ISP now.

Make sure to have a decent network structure in place before hand too and should you get an issue with your Central that is slightly technical.. don't expect it to be fixed quickly

OliverMargetts · 9th October 2005

The market is so competitive these days, IMHO it's not really worth bothering offering ADSL connections, unless you have something pretty different to offer.

philb · 9th October 2005

I agree - we've got plans for our ADSL offerings because frankly there's no point trying to compete with the big players on pricing alone - on some of their pricing by the time you send people an invoice and pay for the cost in receiving the payment you've made a loss.

Provida · 10th October 2005

The trick is (well, one of many tricks, I would imagine) is to determine whether or not ADSL services are going to be a good fit with services that you already offer. For example, customers of a gaming server company might buy the service because it terminates right next to their servers.

Unless you have a niche market, a loyal customer base, whatever, then the only way to make money with ADSL is with volume.

If you think that you have the specialist market or can get a large number of customers reasonably quickly (and by that I'm only talking about 100+) then go down the L2TP route. If not then become a reseller.

Jake

OliverMargetts · 10th October 2005

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Originally Posted by philb

I agree - we've got plans for our ADSL offerings because frankly there's no point trying to compete with the big players on pricing alone - on some of their pricing by the time you send people an invoice and pay for the cost in receiving the payment you've made a loss.

Or actually sell at below wholesale prices *cough* e7even *cough*

It's the first pyramid scheme ISP I've ever heard of (i.e. the new signups pay the bills for the BT Centrals etc.), and one day it will come tumbling down!