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Imagine it was significantly cheaper if you measured it over a 3+ year time-span. Not over a 1-2 year time-span. The unwillingness of corporations to minimize
by urthor 5y ago
Imagine it was significantly cheaper if you measured it over a 3+ year time-span.
Not over a 1-2 year time-span.
The unwillingness of corporations to minimize OpEx by taking on significant one-time CapEx, in order to pretty the books, lives on in so many domains.
- Consultant32452 5y agoAnother important factor is that highly regulated local monopolies like power companies may have certain restrictions like only being able to charge a certain % over cost. Well, you'd much rather have 5% of a large number than a small number, so you're incentivized to do the more expensive long term thing.
- QuercusMax 5y agoHealth insurance has been doing this too.
- lazide 5y agoIt definitely explains a lot of what PG&E has done sometimes - maximum inefficiency and cost in some areas, incredibly (long term destructive) cheap in others.
- bcrl 5y agoMinimizing OpEx is one of the main drivers of telcos to switch to fibre. Companies like Bell Canada are telling their shareholders that network maintenance costs will drop as copper is decommissioned and services are migrated to fibre.