Re: Verizon Wholesale Advantage

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 02:40:12PM -0400, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:00:57PM -0400, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Verizon is selling POTS + ADSL for $70-90/month. Cost is about $50/
> >>month so there is 500% margin when you sell both.
> >>
> >
>
> >500% ?
>
> Sounds like a lot but the current margin on resi DSL is $1 so 500% is
> $5/month.

That sounds like a 500% increase in a margin, not a 500% margin.

Plus the comment about the current margin being $1 almost begs for a
tangent :-) The margin is what you make it. I'm guessing the
implication you are making is that if you sell for $14.95, there is a $1
margin, but that really isn't true, certainly not here in NH, where
there is some 18%+ in taxes added onto the wholesale bill, much of which
is FUSF. (One might add those taxes to the retail price, but then you
aren't really selling for $14.95). Not to mention the various other direct
and indirect costs that add into the top line.

> >Anyway... do you have a URL for this "Wholesale Advantage" ? I don't
> >think I've heard of it.
> >
>
> www.verizon.com/wholesale and search around It is their UNE-P
> replacement and you need to be a CLEC

ah, ok. thanks..

mm

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Received on Fri Oct 28 14:55:53 2005