 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
1 edit | reply to wifi4milez
Re: " Free Service" Why deploy something obsolete and spend the money on deployment (where most of the costs are) and on hardware it may be impossible to service/maintain in the future, with no other upside.
This project has potential. First, how much savings will be realized from not having meter readers, and 2ndly, the network could be expanded to include other uses, so it has a future potential.
Most of the expenses are in the deployment and build out stage, which would of required similar effort and labor for deploying the obsolete system or this one.
Personally I don't see a huge downside to this. Also the city is taking the "Let's see how the free access works out" line of thinking. If it doesn't work out, it stops.
I don't see the huge potential for waste and loss here.
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