| Am I confused "According to a new study by Jupiter Research, the average cost of building and maintaining a municipal wireless network is $150,000 per square mile, with most towns and cities needing to charge $25 per subscriber to make the financials work."
That is not what the report says. The report says:
»www.jupitermedia.com/corporate/r···rch.html
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According to the report, roughly 50% of current initiatives will fail to breakeven even if the benefit of the initiative is assumed to be $25 per user per month.
They are not saying that most will fail if they charge $25 a month, they are saying that if you assume that each user receives $25 of benefit each month, then half of the projects will not break even. That is not the same as charging each user $25 per month, since it avoids supply-demand issues related to price. |
