Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine
Names Top 10 Wireless ISPs for 2004

After compiling information from hundreds of Wireless ISPs across the United States, Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine announced today the Top 10 List of Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) for 2004.  The Top 10 WISP List was compiled by ranking WISPs on the actual number of active subscribers on a wireless network.

“Building wireless networks has become a very popular method of bringing high-speed Internet circuits into neighborhoods and business parks, then distributing the bandwidth via wireless connections to where customers need it most,” said Robert Hoskins, Editor/Publisher of Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine and 16 other online publications.  “In many cities, suburbs and rural areas there are still millions of customers that do not have any broadband options.  Entrepreneurs are now beginning to recognize these opportunities and are discovering that building high-speed wireless Internet networks is an easy way to build a profitable business.”

With a minimal investment of $10,000, an entrepreneur or an existing business owner can launch a wireless ISP operation that may gross as much as $90,000 per year per cell site with as few as 200 customers.

Entrepreneurs and companies that would like to get into the broadband wireless business can find a great deal of information on BWE's website. The site maintains a "How-To" section for beginners as well as full section on Building Broadband Wireless Networks for the technically more advanced candidates.

BWE maintains a business lead database that currently has more than 1,000 customers that are actively planning to spend more than $200 million to build wireless ISPs, Wi-Fi Hotspots and/or corporate wireless enterprise networks in the next 12 months.