The revenue is guaranteed, not the profit, so just require like 10 times the number of meters throughout the city, but make the cost per meter cheap. So the com

The revenue is guaranteed, not the profit, so just require like 10 times the number of meters throughout the city, but make the cost per meter cheap. So the company gets the revenue, but their costs go through the roof. Make them beg to come back to the table ;) (This probably wouldn't work because there are probably other nefarious terms in the contract)