Nik Hug wrote:
From: "Andre Oppermann" oppermann@networx.ch
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100% too. That leaves 17.4% for the ISP to cover all his costs including Internet bandwidth, investments for routers, helpdesk, admin, billing and so on...
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and don't forget the debitor-risk! It's a typical consumer product and so at least I expect a bunch of people paying their adsl-bill late or even never - but the ISP has to pay swisscom even when the end-user doesn't pay .... with such a customer you are loosing revenues from 10-20 "good" customers just to pay for the "bad" customer.
However the sad thing is no matter how low the wholesale price for the ISP will be, there is always one approaching that price plus a few cents. This in turn forces the other ISPs to lower their prices too and again nobody has a useful margin again.