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You will be better positioned in market if you go for a Franchise Option rather than going for ISP . There are already a lot of big fish in market which will give you a tough fight.
What Wrong message are you giving? If he is interested to start an ISP let him start.. Provided Money by Investors.
There are Small companies which have born 1 year back and they giving tough fight to biggies Ex: Excel broadband 1Mbps for Rs500 and Service is Good.
These Small when they perform well, they will be helped by some PE Investor to Grow big Ex: Beam.

Franchising Surely Reduces charges but the Real fun comes when you actually start off and Grow on your own Feet!

 

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What Wrong message are you giving? If he is interested to start an ISP let him start.. Provided Money by Investors.
There are Small companies which have born 1 year back and they giving tough fight to biggies Ex: Excel broadband 1Mbps for Rs500 and Service is Good.
These Small when they perform well, they will be helped by some PE Investor to Grow big Ex: Beam.

Franchising Surely Reduces charges but the Real fun comes when you actually start off and Grow on your own Feet!

I don't see an Excel Broadband registered with DOT. Excell Media is a licensed Class-B ISP operating in Andhra Pradesh since a long time. I don't think that Excell Media can be called as a new player.

I expressed my own opinion because it clearly seems that the poster is totally new to ISP market. So, it is always my first opinion to enter into a market without putting a lot of CAPEX , see the competition and be the judge yourself whether you are willing to be a whole time ISP.

It is not that you can take ISP license and if it doesn't works out DOT will refund you the capital paid for acquiring license.

As far the example of Beam Telecom is concerned, they were in market for quite a long time and their service was not upto the mark . It was only when Atria took over Beam Telecom , invested a huge sum of money , migrated to fiber switches and gigabit ethernet the performance became better and now they are enjoying a subscriber base of over 1.3 lacs.

Also not to underestimate the local cablewalla ruling in respective place and the fight they are going to put to you if you wish to expand your service in their respective areas.

At the end of the day when you do the CAPEX & OPEX calculations, you are better off as a cablewallah compared to licensed ISP.

Would love to get replies on my comment as i am sure that there are a lot experienced peoples in this forum . I just joined today .

 

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Well that is what i think. If you feel you will succeed there's no Doubt that you will fail Then there's No Question of Loosing money. What you've said is Right, You have joined today doesn't make you Broadband Guru.. What you spoke is just a common thinking/advice. Excel broadband is a New player in Hyderabad. I heard they are famous in kakinada and other small cities since 2008.

 

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Well that is what i think. If you feel you will succeed there's no Doubt that you will fail Then there's No Question of Loosing money.

What you've said is Right, You have joined today doesn't make you Broadband Guru.. What you spoke is just a common thinking/advice.
Excel broadband is a New player in Hyderabad. I heard they are famous in kakinada and other small cities since 2008.

Excel Broadband is Licensed ISP or just another Cablewallah ? If you say to start something like Excel Broadband then we both are on the same chapter . It's just you Term Excel Broadband as a ISP , I term it as another Cablewallah .

Joining today doesn't makes me a broadband guru , but working on small to mid scale ISP deployment since 4 years does gives me some insight of the investment and profit gains and competition levels.

Edit : Kakinada is not something like Mumbai where you can become famous in a fortnight . Excell Broadband if i think correctly is Excell Media who is in market since a long time . They were supporting cable operators with bulk bandwidth and now they are in the market trying to spread themselves into retail segment.