An open letter to Hayai and MG Carley!

[mgcarley]

oh Hayai NZ is also not launched yet?! I thought it was already launched, if yes, why website is not functioning?

Like India, Hayai NZ is still bring built, but we have limited amounts of coverage already - the service is available in about 100 apartments in Hamilton's CBD.

 

[Sushubh]

100 apartments. pilot test program. probably being provided for free or some minimal advance payments. a website is only required if you cannot deal with the customers on a personal level.

 

[mgcarley]

How can u operate without the site functioning???
How would people know the tariffs, or online payment, this is actually an unprofessional work.

We're not actively selling the services to clients yet. With 100 customers we'd be losing about $20-25k per month, which isn't much, however I'm not prepared to bear such a loss for the sake of selling the service earlier than we should. It's called "mitigating commercial exposure", and even New Zealand's largest telco has been doing that with it's FTTH network which is available in a few select areas of Auckland... and what used to be Christchurch.

I want to have at least 500 customers on board and a few thousand homes passed, so that we can break even (at least on the operational expenses) from day 1 - and that's what is being built now.

You might say it's unprofessional, but this is business 101, economics 101, investing 101 - the bean counters and bankers prefer that we do these things before they start committing millions of dollars in bank guarantees, loans or investments for us (which are required to even get a service agreement out of the companies I've mentioned).

100 apartments. pilot test program. probably being provided for free or some minimal advance payments. a website is only required if you cannot deal with the customers on a personal level.

Basically, yes. It's more-or-less proof of concept. It helps us get all these companies on board to see what we're doing.

 

[amish]

Umm.. may be u can post feedback from some of those 100 users on ur website.

 

[mgcarley]

Umm.. may be u can post feedback from some of those 100 users on ur website.

We don't have 100 users, it's only available to 100 apartments, and out of those, only a few have taken it up so far (the technically apt ones). Those who have taken it up are contractually obliged to keep things private and assist us while we iron out any potential issues (there hasn't been anything to speak of though), but I don't think any of them have Hayai as their primary connection (since we can stop the beta at any time).

Since we've proved the concept, as we are able to complete more of the infrastructure, we will do a marketing push and officially launch once there is some decent coverage. In essence, this is quite similar to how we're doing things in India, except the same amount of infrastructure passes many many more premises (more dense).

 

[sri]

deleted post.

 

[Topweb]

... and what used to be Christchurch.


Is the situation there that bad? They were talking on CNN that the whole city should be abandoned/moved to some place safer because it is sitting on massive earthquake belt.

 

[mgcarley]

Is the situation there that bad? They were talking on CNN that the whole city should be abandoned/moved to some place safer because it is sitting on massive earthquake belt.

The whole country is a giant earthquake zone GeoNet – Home - like Japan, we're right on the Pacific ring of FIRE! We get 14,000 earthquakes a year through various parts of the country (except where I live) just most of them are very small.

 

[devx101]

I personally believe that the main problem with HAYAI is that mgcarley comes very little to India and controlling from other parts of the world can be a really difficult.:cool2:I think he has to be here personally for at least sometime to set things really right otherwise the questions might keep on coming for more years.:urock: And as per as i know he has other businesses too hence the time is getting divided too. hope that he hastes in launching/moving forward his services otherwise the interest in the entire hayai section can die down in the coming months....:frown::wewin::urock::urock::wewin:

 

[mgcarley]

If it wasn't a ~6mbit/s stream which would be virtually unwatchable in India, I'd give you access to an iSky account which you could watch our local news on via online streaming.