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 Agreements with companies: Sometimes, private companies offer a portion of its capacity to the
public free of charge.
 National or multinational Subsidies: It is not rare to see municipal or supra‐regional projects
funded with capital from Central Government or multinational organizations.

 Cooperative projects: Cooperative wireless broadband networks are a common phenomenon.
However, it does not always have municipal support or intervention. In fact, sometimes the local
government ends up with a project that was originally created as a cooperative and community
project. In Latin America, there are cooperative models related to municipal action; in some
countries cooperative telecommunications companies have their origin in a local government
intervention.

4.3 Evolution to become a Smart Sustainable City

Evolution occurs from different start points (depending on the current development of each urban
area). It is better to study how the more advanced cities evolved, in order to replicate this evolution
in less developed cities. For instance, as it can be seen earlier in this chapter, in 1887 telegraph and
telephone cables in New York City were tangled over the outline of urban roads. Nearly 130 years
later, an identical phenomenon occurs in the developing world. That is why learning from the past
results are necessary. In the same way, many other lessons can be learnt from the cities that are
approaching to the idea of SSC.

It is not necessary to go through each stage in the evolution to become a SSC. In this regard, it will
be useful not only to pose an ideal model for SCC, but also to identify specific cities that are moving
toward that goal. Even if these cities haven´t reached the model completely (must be noted that the
SCC, as all human work, can be improved on, and therefore, it will be a moving target, under
constant improvement). In that way, other cities can replicate their strategies, correct errors, ignore
delay factors and accelerate the followed steps.

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