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by simoncion 4213 days ago
Monkeybrains has been a WISP at least four years. [0]

They also sell service in a Carrier Hotel. I read an article a long while back where they mentioned that:

1) The $250 installation fee, plus the $35/month monthly fee more than covers the costs for each residential customer.

2) The revenue from the stuff in the Hotel would also cover the cost for the residential customers, if the residential customers stopped paying their bills or something.

[0] http://twitpic.com/m63rt

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Ha, that is an old service map! We have close to 5000 antennas up now. Also, Business WISP is the new revenue hog for us... Colocation is stable, but not growing. Residential WISP is also growing (and has outstripped colocation). - Rudy
Yikes! I should have re-read my comment. My prose doesn't make it at all clear that I was pointing to a four year old map. (Sorry about that! :( ) An up-to-date coverage map can be found under the "Coverage Map" section here [0].

It's neat to hear how your new revenue sources have changed over the years. Hope you guys keep growing the business and -one day- push Comcast and ATT out of The City!

[0] https://www.monkeybrains.net/wireless.html [1]

[1] Or, a direct link to the current-at-the-time-that-I-wrote-these-words coverage map: https://www.monkeybrains.net/2011/islands-of-san-francisco.p...