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Welcome to FISPA LIVE!
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Where VOLstate.net was
Started in 1996 as a residential ISP– Basically one product
• Dial up access with email.
We changed out of necessity– Started offering ISDN and DSL service– Started concentrating on business clients
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By 2007
We were a business only, Data ISP– We sold PCs and Servers out of necessity.– We had some good clients– We lacked the products we needed
•We needed a voice offering
We were paying too much for almost everything.– We were losing deals.
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Thought I could get help getting into the voice business.
Tried attending a FISPA show.– Found a new vendor– Arranged cross selling across LATA with
another FISPA member– Discovered I was not alone…
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VOLstate Joined FISPA
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Producers
Fispa is full of producers with diverse models.
Some are innovators– Taking Risk and driving change
Some are great competitors– Taking business from the LECs– Providing their customers a great experience
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Use FISPA to add Leverage
Remember the power of your association – When you negotiate with vendors that are not
yet in FISPA.• Leverage that membership and widen your
opportunity.– Charter relationship started in the conference room of
VOLstate in a meeting with Matt Anderson» Needed an alternative to just DSL» VOLstate by itself was not a large enough
opportunity.
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Use FISPA to help vendors.
New Vendor – You want them to be successful.– In 2008 I was introduced to a new vendor that
could get me in the voice business.• It was risky – I was only the second customer.• Nonetheless, I had to get in the voice business.• I wanted them to succeed.
I asked Ipifony to Join FISPA. – They have helped FISPA by being a sponsor
at every event since.
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Connection Options
Utilize the Swiss Army Knife of Connectivity– Larger Competitors don’t do this.
• The needs of the customer are not met
– You have the know how– Take what you have and make unique
products.
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Smaller competitors can win
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One Example of Victory
FISPA helped us land our largest customer– That deal is worth over 850 thousand dollars.
• Uses AT&T Metro Ethernet.• Uses AT&T light gate.• Users Nitel rural LDPL• Uses a now abandoned FISPA DSL aggregation• Users another FISPA service provider to add out of
market circuits. • Used “Know How” I gathered from other members.
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CLEC “Therapy”
FISPA members taught me how to become a CLEC.
“CLEC Therapy” Not wasted.– FISPA CLEC helping “wannabes”– Expert Vendors available
• Kris Twomey• Technologies Management (guest at one event)
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On my way to the TRA...
Here is a picture of the AT&T headquarters in Nashville, TN.
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AT&T’s Brand…
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VOLstate’s Voice Brand
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Pole Attachment Help
Fispa members shared 2 pole attachment agreements with me.
I now have an agreement with my city-owned utility.
We have completed the first of 7 phases of our build out.
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Layer 1 started
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The Power of Layer 1
We recently finished negotiations with 2 anchor customers.
Renewed for 3 and 4 years.A large, publicly traded CLEC was bidding
both jobs.Their salesman recently called me asking to
work for us.
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Regulatory Help
Like it or not, Governments want their piece of your business.
Compliance is important– Keep the bureaucrats out of your life!– Vendor Members Kris Twomey and Mark
Lamert can help you.
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Catch up with your vendors.Reconnect with your peers.Consider the solutions that new vendors
have.Help someone else.
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While You are Here
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