The leak of D-Link’s private cryptographic keys poses a risk for DLink certified software. Any software signed between February and September could be disguised malware, created and distributed illegally by anyone who had access to D-Link’s private keys and passphrases during these months.
German government proposes a change to previous liability clause in order to facilitate Internet access to public users through the nation, by suggesting user-registration system to WLAN providers to prevent infringement.
In comparison to other countries in Europe, Germany’s current legal situation makes it difficult for public users to find an accessible WiFi hotspot. The Telemedia Act currently enforced holds network providers responsible for its users’ online legal certainty. As this Act is set to diminish the possibility of cybercriminal activities, most businesses opt to restrict or impede full access to their WiFi hotspots in fear of lawsuits, regardless of whether or not the network is at fault. (more…)
Space X CEO and CTO Elon Musk awaits government approval on a multi-million dollar project in the global telecommunications industry to launch 4,000 Internet satellites that will broadcast signals of high-speed Internet across the globe.
In a multi-million dollar venture, Space X CEO and CTO, Elon Musk’s main goal is to broadcast Internet signals worldwide by launching 4,000 satellites into orbit from Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket within the next five years. To provide unfettered Internet access, Musk has set out to achieve what has thus far been beyond the reach of big time companies like Google and Facebook, and fellow business magnates, like Bill Gates and Richard Branson. (more…)
After having established partnerships with wireless vendors Ruckus Wireless and Aruba Networks, Juniper Networks has now also allied with Aerohive Networks to offer Wi-Fi solutions for small enterprises in the K-12 education, retail, and state and local government.
Google Fiber Project and Indian Railways will offer free Internet at 400 selected Indian railway stations. Some Internet Providers are already offering Wi-Fi access at the railway station, but the service is not consistent across the entire country and the existing hotspots are not enough for the Indian commuters and train passengers, that are 20 million every day.
In the previous post, we discussed about the cost-based and the competition-based pricing methods (that can be used for any product) and I provided an Excel Worksheet to price WiFi projects.
Read the first post here>>
In this post, we will discuss about two other Pricing Methods that can be used for Wi-Fi projects:
– value-based pricing
– room-based pricing (that is conceived for hotels, B&B, resorts, campings, etc.)
Value-based pricing is the most efficient but most difficult method to price products and services. It completely ignores the production / deployment costs; instead, it is set on the perceived or estimated value of the service/product to the customer.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to calculate your value-based pricing. We suggest you to conduct a detailed research on your prospect customers, understand their needs and pain points.
The key questions are:
If your solution perfectly fits the customer’s needs, solves their main problems, adds a large value, you can estimate your price.
This method should be applied to price Wi-Fi solutions for hotels, B&Bs, campings, etc.
The end user price stands in direct proportion with the number of rooms of the location, the average occupancy during the whole year, the average price per room.
If you chose this method, fill the file with this information:
You will get the per-room monthly price and the hotel monthly price. This price, in some cases, could be inclusive of your support / troubleshooting / etc. We suggest to split hardware costs (not included) and software / service costs (calculated with this method).