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Doug,
In setting rates, we may be overlooking a few things that have been much
discussed over the last year or so. To add to some points made byMark and Chris:
A. I believe the PPP access was first created to give all IPs a graphic access
to CCN to be able to check and improve the quality of their pages and graphics.
The idea was to encourage all of them to use it, to help raise the quality of of
all CCN pages.
Once it was tested and running, it was then offered for a fee to all CCN
members.
B. Our competition is likely not other local commercial ISP's. It is more likely
those who host free web pages, like Freeyellow or Tripod, who get their income
from sources other than individual members (e.g., advertisers). It is now quite
easy to get 25 mb or more for no cost.
C. IPs that leave CCN for other local ISPs often do so (we believe) at no cost
to them. The ISP sold advertising on the basis that there would be plenty of
traffic to their forthcoming community and public interest pages. Months or a
year later, they still had hardly any. So they had to head out to find already
developed pages that could be enticed away from another ISP like CCN.
D. Commercial ISPs recruit customers with hard selling, i.e, by full time sales
people doing sales calls. We do not have that luxury. They cover everyone they
think can pay. That leaves all those who cannot pay.
Bob Adams
IP Training
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