RE: Go Satellite

Dwight Jones ( djones@imagen.net )
Sat, 28 Jun 1997 15:46:30 -0700

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I am a little confused here. How do you make any money selling something
they are pushing in CompUSA and Computer City ? There are about a half
dozen of these where I live.

-Don=20

There's usually $100 room between retail and wholesale, maybe less if =
you're into real discounters. There should be that much installing them =
as well.

But that's not the issue. What happens is you keep that customer's 33.6K =
account alive, he doesn't migrate off your books to cable etc. And your =
T1 - level continues to be all you'll really need for some years. The =
same opportunity is there with WebTV.

I can't see you exploiting "dry copper" and ADSL, going to T3's, ending =
up with fiber optics and ATM bandwidth etc. in a $20/month market. Watch =
those guys crash and burn for three years.

Dwight Jones
Imagen

> My suggestion would be to become a dealer for Hughes' new dual
> Internet/Digital TV 21" elliptical dish. The service is scheduled to
> include TV as well as the Internet July 15th.=20
>=20
> Fight back with 400K (with the return signal going through you at
> 33.6),
> and let the telcos stare down the throat of satellite TV, CD quality
> music
> and so on.=20
>=20
> This gives you a chance to pour bandwidth onto the city that doesn't
> have
> to come from your poor little T1.=20
>=20
> Otherwise you just wither and die, because you do not have another
> generation of bandwidth available to you. I'm not affiliated with
> Hughes,
> just betting on them to save my bacon and give my ISP operation a
> strong
> future - that allies me with TV (a strong force in our society), and
> keeps
> the big boys hopping.
>=20
> Check out of 56K and check into http://www.direcpc.com
>=20
> Best Regards;
>=20
> Dwight G. Jones
> Imagen Communications Inc.
> http://www.imagen.net
> Information Architects tm
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