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Done right, video advertisements can be very, very effective because they can convey a lot of information in a short amount of time.
Like this new Towerstream video... on YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd9uG-RKP6s (wish I could embed it, but they YouTube doesn't seem to allow that [easily] any more.)
Towerstream announced their 9th US market today - Dallas / Fort Worth Texas. What's unremarkable is that it's more of the same that we've come to expect from Towerstream - they're offering Broadband Internet Access at highly-competitive prices, service levels, and performance, and they happen to use wireless, rather than wireline, as a competitive advantage.
At the same time... doing so is remarkable. Towerstream really does have the formula down to keep doing this, market after market, extending their core strengths of their call-center sales model, outsourced, low-overhead installation, use of Broadband Wireless Internet Access technology, very solid, reliable backbone / backhaul, and above all, low-overhead and highly cost-effective. When it comes time to compete on price in an inevitable head-to-head competition in coming years, Towerstream will be positioned very well.
Continue reading "Towerstream Expands To DFW, Winding Down ITB" »
I updated Independent Towerstream Blog with three new sidebars (right side) today:
Towerstream Markets is obviously self-explanatory. Towerstream Competitors - Regional is my highly-subjective list of serious competitors to Towerstream either in current Towerstream markets (Accel Net in Seattle; Business Only Broadband in Chicago), or major urban markets that Towerstream might reasonably be expected to enter (Phoenix, served by Metrobridge; Portland, OR served by Freewire Broadband). Towerstream Competitors - National is also highly subjective, and I list only one that has something-approaching national scale on a par with Towerstream's nine markets to date.
My experience... well... sense is that every major urban area in the US, say the largest 150 urban markets, all have at least one Broadband Wireless Internet Access Service Provider serving businesses with "T1" and faster Broadband Internet Access with comparable reliability to wireline. I'll be continuously updating the "competitors" list as I discover these urban BWIA SPs.
Continue reading "Site Updates; Observations On Service Provider Sites " »
Welcome to the Independent Towerstream Blog!
I've been writing about the evolution of Broadband Wireless Internet Access for a decade now, and I view the the emergence of Towerstream to be a seminal development. Not only is it the highest profile company (well, not counting the flameouts - Teligent, Winstar, Advanced Radio Telecom, etc.) providing "Fixed" Broadband Wireless Internet Access mostly to businesses in urban areas, but Towerstream made real what had only been a theory of mine. That theory was that well-capitalized, well-organized Broadband Wireless Internet Access Service Providers could operate in urban markets utilizing license-exempt spectrum... if they used good (albeit expensive) technology, engineering, and systems.
Towerstream proved out this theory - initially using (ill-fated) Cisco BWIA systems, then Aperto Networks systems to great success, and then systems from multiple vendors. I've covered Towerstream since I learned of it shortly after, if not at its inception. My writing here will offer an experienced, independent perspective that's focused solely on Towerstream, exceptions being to provide context on Towerstream's place within, and influence upon, the larger Broadband Wireless Internet Access industry. If you'd like to read about the bigger picture of the Broadband Wireless Internet Access industry, I'm happy to oblige at Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) / WiMAX News blog, which I've been writing for a long time.
In writing about Towerstream, I'm completely independent of Towerstream - I have no affiliation or association with Towerstream, formal or informal. Towerstream serves the Seattle area, so I hope to offer at least some "up close" perspective about how Towerstream is performing in the Seattle market, as well as linking to the abundant coverage from journalists that cover the company as the first Service Provider to join the WiMAX Forum.
Please let me know what you think about the Independent Towerstream Blog, either by private email - steve@stevestroh.net or by commenting on the articles here.
By Steve Stroh
This article is Copyright © 2008 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged.)
