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 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | reply to Matt
Re: " Free Service" said by Matt:said by wifi4milez:Exactly. How much of the $5m did they spend to get this portion of the network up? How long until the remainder of that money is used up, 6 months a year at most? Q) What happens when the money is gone? A) The taxpayers foot the bill of course! Bottom line: If you live in Houston beware, since you will soon be bailing your city out of another bungled wifi deployment. Again, you're not even trying. Did you even read the whole article before spewing your Anti-WiFi-Anything nonsense? This will be funded by the parking meter fees. Ummm, did you even visit the Houston city website?? It's not being funded by parking meter fees, and in fact makes absolutely no mention of that. What is does say is that it was deployed to provide electronic communication to and from new parking stations around the city.
said by Houston City Website :
The network was implemented to provide electronic communication for City's new state-of-the-art wireless parking meter pay stations.
Furthermore (again, if you had bothered to visit the site) you can see that the city realizes that this might be a losing proposition, and so they have prepared a way to back out gracefully when the inevitable comes.
said by Houston City Website :
The City of Houston is providing free WiFi as a pilot. The City has no long-term service commitments beyond but a long term service commitment may be provided if the pilot is successful in terms of usage and operation.
Translation: "Once we realize what a stupid idea this was we are going to either charge people to use the network, or keep it "free" and raise taxes."
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If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by wifi4milez:Ummm, did you even visit the Houston city website?? It's not being funded by parking meter fees, and in fact makes absolutely no mention of that. What is does say is that it was deployed to provide electronic communication to and from new parking stations around the city. You have absolutely no understanding of how a business, much less a government, is run do you?
They have X amount of dollars they allocate for a project and the project is funded from that. In this case, they allocated X amount of dollars to install a WiFi network for the parking meters. So it's being funded by fees for that project, ergo, the parking meters are funding the project.
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | said by Matt:You have absolutely no understanding of how a business, much less a government, is run do you? Yes in fact I have many years of first hand knowledge running a business and working with the government. Thanks for asking though!
said by Matt:They have X amount of dollars they allocate for a project and the project is funded from that. In this case, they allocated X amount of dollars to install a WiFi network for the parking meters. So it's being funded by fees for that project, ergo, the parking meters are funding the project. You are confusing yourself. Setting aside funding for a project, and running said project on future produced revenue, are two totally different things. Your original statement was:
said by MattE :
This will be funded by the parking meter fees.
That is not correct. You are now trying to wiggle out of that and imply you meant something else, but thats not going to work. The city spent a given amount of money to deploy this network. Once that money is gone (if its not already) they will need to come up with additional money to continue offering this service. The options are:
1) Make people pay
2) Raise taxes
The reason for this is that the revenue earned by the original, non wireless parking meters is already accounted for. I can assure you the city uses that money in their budget for things such as road repair, maintenance, or any number of things. Adding an additional expense (the wireless equipment, techs, man hours, etc.) will require additional money be raised. As I just mentioned, there are two ways to get that money, take your pick!
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If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
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