From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 10 6:47: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29C3C14E19 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 06:46:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 10801 invoked by uid 1825); 10 Jan 2000 14:46:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Jan 2000 14:46:55 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:46:55 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: Troy Settle Cc: FreeBSD ISP List Subject: RE: Offtopic: National Carriers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Troy Settle wrote: > I'd reccomend using 2 or 3 different wholesalers. Megapop and Ziplink are > both good places to start. You might want to check with PSI, GTE, and > UUNET. I think Sprint has a wholesale solution as well. What would bother me about this, and why I don't do more outsourcing, is that you may end up paying 2 or 3 carriers for the same users in a given month if they, A) Roam between one area of coverage and another or B) Your carriers have overlapping coverage, and your users use both in a month. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > > paul@premier-networks.com > > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 7:00 AM > > To: Bill Vermillion > > Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Offtopic: National Carriers > > > > > > That's what I've found with AGIS so far as well.... they only want to do > > the bundled solution.... C&W doesn't seem to cover a lot of POP's in > > their solution.... > > > > We're still deciding between Ziplink and Megapop for now.... we only > > have a very small amount of possible users in the immediate time frame > > so Ziplink's minimum of $100/month versus Megapop's minimum $500/month > > looks more attractive. However Megapop has more POP's and covers some > > Canadian cities as well which is attractive to our needs...:) > > > > Paul > > > > > > Bill Vermillion wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:51:34PM -0500, Thus Spake > > > paul@premier-networks.com: > > > > > > > I haven't discarded anyone yet.. these are the only two we've > > > > looked at so far..:) > > > > > > > Hoping someone on this list already uses one of them and could > > > > share their thoughts... > > > > > > Some people I'm doing some consulting for are looking at Agis for > > > the major market solution - one login from anywhere in the country > > > - and minimum number of ports. > > > > > > Once the city count gets to a decent level then the Level 3 > > > solution looks pretty good. > > > > > > I also saw a pitch by Cable and Wireless - but it was more aimed at > > > making someone a virtual ISP. They did all the work and even > > > produced a custom logoed CD so it looked it was your company. > > > > > > THere appear to many alternative ways to approach things > > > > > > Bill > > > -- > > > Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message