Setting up an ISP

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davey707

Original Poster:

87 posts

259 months

Monday 19th April 2004
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Anyone here know how my client might set up a small Internet Service Provider.
Or wher I could seek advice on this??

PetrolTed

34,443 posts

310 months

Monday 19th April 2004
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Does he want to do it for real or become a Virtual ISP?

Check out www.nildram.net - they're offering VISP solutions these days.

tvrforever

3,182 posts

272 months

Monday 19th April 2004
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why on earth would you want to get into such a commoditiy market with such over-capacity?

www.mistral.net are pretty damm good at this stuff

robertuk

591 posts

269 months

Monday 19th April 2004
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This is from memory (1996 !)


Basically your client could become a virtual ISP.
You buy the services you require and use your branding.

The beauty is lower start up costs.
Also when they add new services and products you can immediately offer these to your customers.
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You select a company who provide a local rate number for your customers to use. 0845 ---------

Call costs:
1/3 goes to telephone company
1/3 goes to the ISP
and your client keeps the other 1/3.

As pay as you go dial up is unpopular,
you also offer unmetered and ADSL services via the company.

You can brand the welcome packs/ guides with your logos.

This is from memory so may be out of date !

Ramesh

furby

378 posts

253 months

Monday 19th April 2004
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I have a mate who is in the biz of setting up VISP's.
Dial & ADSL and what not. Bit of a numbers game and a bit swamped for my liking, but if you are interested drop me a mail via my profile and i will forward you on.

DAVE BRENNAND

220 posts

283 months

Monday 19th April 2004
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Thanks for the help chaps.
Yes I'm ure it is a busy market, but my soon to be client has a captive audience and reckons to have found around £800k in business if he can ofer them an ISP service.
A VISP sounds just the job, I'll rush off and tell him - for a slice of the action of course!!!
OOh.... 360 spider or DB9??

furby

378 posts

253 months

Monday 19th April 2004
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Captive market sounds ideal. I almost (as ever!!) had a similar thingy, I was working with a high street company and proposed putting ADSL into all of thir high street branches around the country, around 1500 in total.

Had I of pulled that one off, the 911 or Maserati would have been mine.

That is how I got my contact, turns out my bro in law does this sort of thing, strange the things you learn at a family piss up.

Anyway as I say, should you need pointing drop me a line.

chrisgr31

13,741 posts

262 months

Tuesday 20th April 2004
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tvrforever said:
why on earth would you want to get into such a commoditiy market with such over-capacity?

www.mistral.net are pretty damm good at this stuff


Are they? They host a site I am involved, nothing but a pain. And it appears they don't host PHP. However now waiting to be proved wrong! :-D

davey707

Original Poster:

87 posts

259 months

Wednesday 21st April 2004
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Spoke to my contact yesterday - he's got it all 'sewn up' now so apparently I'll have tyo cancel the DB9 till the next big opportunity comes floating my way.
Knakkers!!

furby

378 posts

253 months

Wednesday 21st April 2004
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davey707 said:
Spoke to my contact yesterday - he's got it all 'sewn up' now so apparently I'll have tyo cancel the DB9 till the next big opportunity comes floating my way.
Knakkers!!


Bah! No worries though the amount of cars I have had to cancel.............
Sure the next big one is just around the corner.