At 09:38 AM 9/29/2007, you wrote: >Ah yes I saw this article. It was fairly interesting. > >As for it not working when out sourced to the private sector, that's a fairly >blanket statement.
When the administrative overhead of private firms needs to be paid for as well (think executive salaries, rented office space, health plans, etc), then that appears to have a cost increase of 100% or more. The key i think is to avoid "free" and think "highly discounted" where it would be "free" to those who qualify, while the other subscribers would have to subsidize the discount levels. This could easily be done with high bandwidth users watching on demand full frame/full motion movies at 10 meg/sec, would pay for something that DSL/cable broadband can not deliver. I just do not see any effort in "itemizing" the possible revenue streams, which are well over a dozen, including both low and high cost items (movies are high, ISO images are low), where QoS and accounting play the most important infrastructure part of the enterprise. >I think that system design/architecture, componet analysis can and should be >done by the private sector. The roll out should absolutely be done by the >local govt. Especially in Los Angeles with the various unions and so forth. What is a "roll out?" How does local gov do it? If they pay for the initial set up, who pays and runs the operation year after year? The city or a private firm? With tax dollars, or some ratio of tax dollars with revenue? I think that is why LA choose to use a feasibility firm approach. To get many ideas/approaches. Here in LA I firmly believe that the private individual, small firms, can do this job, and make a 25% profit doing so, while larger firms will fall flat at no profit, or negative cash flow (admin overhead costs). Thus, my looking for other good people to do this with. Email me privately if you are interested. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
