COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT!
"Phase One of the Kamloops Community Wireless Network
powered by ISP IN A BOX® is now available.
We welcome Kamloops residents to try the service for free!!!
If you have any questions about the service, please call the team at
On Call Internet Services (250-376-3858).
They look forward to helping you and sharing their excitement about what
ISP IN A BOX® means to our community.
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The ISP-IN-A-BOX® Solution(Background)
| A strategic community, corporate alliance has resulted in a unique collaborative
approach of managed risk shared investment, and most importantly, community opportunity. Under this enterprise agreement and on behalf of urban, rural and First Nation communities the partners of ISP IN A BOX®, On Call Internet Services Ltd and Indigiinet Corporation, have acquired the support, cooperation, experience or backing of TELUS Partner Solutions, Alvarion Canada, Industry Canada Industrial Research Division, Thompson Nicola Regional District, Interior Science Innovation Council and Waveteq to name a few. We have pooled our expertise and financial resources in order to present this community driven business solution for the provision of LOCAL broadband connectivity. |
| ISP-IN-A-BOX® is a proactive, turnkey solution that demonstrates how community engagement brings about a viable and sustainable solution. It is also an indication of our technical ability to bring a very reliable and robust hybrid fibre/wireless solution to a region. It will become apparent that this solution has significantly reduced overall costs and has maximized return to the community. However, and perhaps more importantly we have partners with a unified vision on technology and communication solutions. Now, we are able to provide a nationally standardized Broadband solution, a partnership that reduces cost while improving sustainability, enhancing stability and minimizing the one-time or phased investment required. | |
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| Through this partnership we will make available key wholesale application services,easy to sell, and manage. Finally, despite the resources and stability the nationals bring to our Broadband team solution, it is still implemented and managed by your community in a collaborative undertaking with ISP IN A BOX® and its partners. We are working with various municipalities and any designated stakeholders, have a proven track record to deliver and we also live, work and play in the areas we serve. We are a company with invested funds of our own and a reputation for bringing realistic Broadband solutions to communities across Canada. |
Overcoming Traditional Constraints
| The major constraints that have traditionally held back community owned deployment of Broadband Networks have been: |
| * Lack of a viable business case |
| * Lack of technological and business skills to operate a small ISP |
| * No access to the necessary bandwidth |
* No interest on the part of major telecommunication suppliers |
| * Lack of profitable and relevant applications |
Overcoming Traditional Barriers to Entry
| The old Internet Service Provider(ISP) model required an operator with a technology skill set not necessarily available and an office full of skilled staff expensive to maintain in a competitive marketplace. ISP-IN-A-BOX® has eliminated this operational roadblock with an inclusive ISP operating package that handles every day-to-day aspect of running an ISP. Training, ongoing business support for the operation, 24/7 tech support, accounts payable/receivable monitoring, automated customer sign-up, marketing, application services, community portals. Everything an ISP needs to operate a business successfully is included and supported. |
Developing a Viable Business Case
| Traditional models for the provision of Internet Services have always struggled with the costs associated
with access. In many areas these are at a level that
deny communities access to internet connectivity. Our solution has eliminated this roadblock and replaced it with a model designed to provide stability and sustainability. Minimum monthly access fees have been significantly reduced and traffic charges as well through aggregation. With ISP-IN-A-BOX® community networks will pay for ongoing connectivity based only on the number of clients. It is a business model that most industries use and our ISP-IN-A-BOX® sets it as the new Broadband standard. |
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