But in this case, wasn't the basic parking meter infrastructure already in place when the deal happened? It wasn't like the company had to invest millions of dollars and many years of development just to begin collecting revenue. I'm sure they probably did invest a lot in getting operations up and running internally, but as for the physical meters wasn't this more of a turnkey type of deal?
The parking company replaced all the old meters with the boxes and wrote an app, so they definitely did invest a bit. The boxes alone easily cost millions of dollars
