Why does Alliance
Solutions offer so many dial-up locations?
No one wants to pay long
distance fees to dial up the internet,
especially as much time as people spend on the
internet today. So a very critical component for
a virtual ISP to become successful is to have
local dial-up locations wherever someone wants
to sign up.
Every vISP Provider offers
dial-up locations in the metropolitan areas
where there is a high population density and
these locations cost the vISP Provider the
least. As a result, there is much competition
from AOL, MSN Earthlink, (who each have less
than 10,000 local numbers nationwide) regional
ISPs, virtual ISPs and broadband in these areas.
Yet, the greatest opportunity
for virtual ISPs offering dial-up access is in the really rural areas
where broadband is not available and there is
very little competition - in communities not
serviced by AOL, MSN and Earthlink. A very
critical part of being the highest quality vISP
Provider in the industry, is to provide dial-up
locations where others do not, even though these
location are much more costly to us than the
metropolitan locations. So we partner with all
of the large network providers and many small
regional networks resulting in well over 35,000
unique numbers. To view our phonebook,
click here.
In addition to covering rural
areas like no other vISP Provider, having many
networks means that most of your subscribers
have many numbers from various networks from
which to choose . Should a
local number of one network provider go down, rather
than not being able to gain access to the
Internet, a subscriber can simply change to
another network's local number. We believe this
is part of offering the subscriber superior
quality service.
A Side Note About Locations:
There is a big difference between a vISP
Provider offering a number of "unique
locations" and another offering a
number of "unique numbers."
A Side Note About Networks:
Many vISP Providers offering multiple networks
require the subscriber to use only the network
on which they initially logged in. The reason for this
is because they buy access from the network
provider on a
"per user" basis. If the subscriber logs in to
more than one network, the vISP Provider's
monthly cost for that subscriber increases by
each networked accessed. In
other words, by letting subscribers use multiple
networks, they can pay for that subscriber
several times in the same month.
Larger vISP
Providers buy access "by the hour" and play the
averages. However, by buying by the
hour, it does not matter what network the
subscriber uses. Alliance Solutions buys access
from the network providers "by the hour." So
when a subscriber travels they can use any
number in our phonebook. Would you expect
anything less from a high quality vISP Provider?
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