24 May
2005
24 May
'05
3:16 p.m.
Andre Oppermann wrote:
No, it doesn't reflect the real expenses of the ISPs. It's too low and no ISP makes a dime on the standard ADSL Offer at those prices. Swisscom on the other makes a lot of money on the ADSL lines they resell to the ISPs. Approximatly 75% of the enduser price go to Swisscom.
I'd rather say 90 to 95%, if you allow a reasonable overbooking rate on the backhaul.
And don't forget the ISP has to pay the VAT out of the 100% too. That leaves 17.4% for the ISP to cover all his costs including Internet bandwidth, investments for routers, helpdesk, admin, billing and so on... Consider yourself lucky if you make two or three bucks per subscriber and month.
FULLACK.
F.