[asterisk-biz] OT: Independent ISPs in the US

[voip-asterisk at maximumcrm.com]

> There's no easy money.  You won't last long in pure resale.  You have to
> add value.  At the moment, there's a compelling value proposition to
> offer relative to other VoIP O/T & ITSP call shops in better
> engineering, better peering, better tools, and better rates.
>
> But how long can you beat the folks who actually do the hauling and
> switching, especially as they make it easier for your customers to go
> straight to them?

At the end of the day it depends how much they want to do with these 
customers. It might be that the way they can make money is to keep having 
resellers and only have to support a handful of technically litterate 
companies then gobs of peoples who can't tell how to plug an ethernet 
cable.

Look now at the Bell of this world which are stuggling to stay solvent. 
There are real costs in supporting a lot of customers and these can 
quickly drag down profitability on a low margin product.

Point in case, Bell Canada had to cancel a privatization deal with 
Teachers because the new entity would have been insolvent.