Start An Isp
If you are thinking of starting an ISP business, here are some things you need to know. First, there are two things that you will have to be good at, marketing and service. The success of any ISP business depends on your ability to find customers, and even more importantly, to provide a high level of local service. You should consider whether you have the necessary skills to perform these functions before you venture into the ISP business.That being said, if you do begin this business, there are a number of things that you wil NOT need:
Going virtual will solve these problems for you. With Novatrope's Virtual ISP service, you will have access numbers available throughout the US and Canada, over 10,000 POP's at current count. You have immediate access to all of these numbers without any capital investment.
Your cost structure is known in advance. No extras for tech support issues, equipment replacement, or equipment failures. You get billed for the users you set up using a special password protected web page. You get billed from the day you set them up until the day you turn them off.
We will provide you access to all the equipment you need; we will maintain and service it; we will provide you with our online tech support manual that answers 99% of customer questions. All included in your monthly fee.
You will be able to offer the following services to your customers. (Our prices include all of these.) TODAY.
- Dialup with 56K V.90/V.92 modems in any of the 10,000 cities that we service with local numbers.
- Access to all internet sites and services.
- 5 Email accounts for each dialup. (Emails with user@your.domain.com format)
- 20 MB Web Hosting for each dialup.
- Propel Dialup accelerator (boosts user download speeds by as much as 7X). Available to you for $1.50 per user per month.
- Newsgroup service from over 67,000 newsgroups.
- Domain Name Service.
Profit Potential
Anyone can start an isp. Here is some information regarding the profit potential.
No matter what your level of success in marketing, you should have a profit from the first account. Here is one possible scenario, assuming that you get to 1000 dialup accounts and that 100 of these also use your hosting service.
| Number of Dialup Accounts | 1000 |
| Revenue per Dialup | $19.99 |
| Cost per Dialup | $3.60 |
| Gross Profit per Account | $16.39 |
| Gross Profit Dialup accounts | $16,390 per month |
| Number of Hosting Accounts | 100 |
| Revenue per Hosted Account | $19.95 |
| Cost per Hosted Account | $4.95 |
| Gross Profit per Account | $15.95 |
| Gross Profit Hosting accounts | $1595 per month |
| Total Gross Profit | $17,985 per month |
