implementing an ISP school project

ISPs provide different combinations of services:
- dial-up internet access
- broadband internet access
- email accounts
- web-hosting for personal site
- web-hosting for commercial sites (incl. e-commerce, whatever that means - so define it foryour project)
- chat rooms and message boards
- Usenet feeds
- project management for customers
- etc.

What is yours going to provide?

Consider your start-up budget. Have some VCs dumped a couple of million in a bank account for you, or are you borrowing a couple of thousand from your parents? Where else are you going to get money?

What will your fee structure look like? Compare this to your LOCAL competition.

What is it in your Business Plan that differentiates you from the hundreds of other ISPs out there? Why should anybody use YOU? (It is this DIFFERENTIATION that will make the biggest difference.)

The problems for which you have to plan include technological (security, redundancy, physical capacity, etc.) and strategic (planning for growth, staffing, service levels and how to maintain them, sales and marketing, etc.)

Hope that helps a bit.

I have a document with a lot of information. It is a little choppy but you can weed through it and get some good information. It also includes some link at the bottom that will direct you to other information about ISPs

I will e-mail the document to you.

Preston