[asterisk-biz] VoIP and Internet connection

[Mitul Limbani]

Dear Jacob,

The deal is that you need to lay your own cable till each n every  
customer's premise or take the same on rent from big boy AT&T both of  
which are costly affair :)

Thanks & Regards,
Mitul Limbani,
Founder & CEO,
Enterux Solutions Pvt. Ltd.,
The Enterprise Linux Company (r),
http://www.enterux.com
http://www.entVoice.com

On 02-Feb-2010, at 7:52, jthomas at cequip.com wrote:

> We are a 2-man company providing hosted PBX solution to businesses. So
> far we have done reasonably well, and got enough businesses to make a
> decent profit to pay our bills.
>
> The hurdle we are facing is getting decent Internet connection at
> reasonable price to our clients. A new company calls us, and say, they
> want 4 lines in their office. We ask them to get any kind of Internet
> connection at their premise. The problem is they cannot get DSL  
> without
> a telephone connection, and Cox charges them a lot for cable! In  
> fact it
> is cheaper for them to get both Internet and telephone service from  
> Cox
> than Internet only. Outrageous but that is fact of life. We lose a lot
> of business because of this.
>
> We are exploring if we can become an ISP and provide DSL connection
> ourselves. We have about $100K at our disposal. We do not have much  
> idea
> about what is involved in becoming an ISP and how to go about it.
>
> Does any one of you have any suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
> Jacob.
>
>
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