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Please note that the following comments about some ISP billing programs available today are the individual opinions of an ISP-CEO, not me, or the ISP-Lists, or ISP-Planet for that matter. All the same, take the comments for what they are worth from a handful of different ISP-CEOs personal perspectives. In the order that the billing programs were discussed:
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Highly
affordable at $1,250 per license 
Includes
advertising tracking functions 
If
you don't have SQL experience it could be | Boardtown Corp. Platypus Billing System: |
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| IEA Software’s Emerald Billing Program: |
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| Honorable mention: Intuit’s QuickBooks |
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DSL vs cable vs fixed wireless
Many ISP-CEOs felt that they had been railroaded out of the DSL service
segment by local phone companies that sell broadband access to end users
for less than ISPs can contract for resale. ISP-CEOs see cable access
as having the same inherent problems—only the few, the large, or
AT&T and
AOL-owned
ISPs can play in the coax arena at this time.
But unlicensed fixed wireless technology is one area that ISPs can dominate—or at least compete with rival broadband formats available in their markets. However, the learning curve to deploy fixed wireless services is steep, and some ISP-CEOs fear investing in this new technology because they figure they will eventually get burned by larger firms and leverage out of local markets, just like what happened with DSL.
Special thanks
Lastly, I'd like to publicly thank Penton Media for giving us both a public
ISP-CEO roundtable, even though they called them BoF (Birds of a Feather)
Sessions, and a private, closed ISP-CEO roundtable, which was not recorded.
Also, we should be thankful for the refreshments and snacks.
Positive feedback came from both audiences and for those-CEOs reading this, I hope you can join us this fall for ISPCON-Las Vegas in October.
To Your ISP Marketing Success!
Christopher M. Knight
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