[993] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bell vs. Internet Providers (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rae S. Ashton)
Fri Nov 10 17:00:15 1995
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 15:50:21 -0600 (CST)
From: "Rae S. Ashton" <rashton@tag01.acnet.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
cc: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu, rashid@rk.ios.com, pferguso@cisco.com
In-Reply-To: <48150464@um.cc.umich.edu>
Don't forget to take into account, that the majority of the Telcos' charge
metered rates for commercial local calls (and even non-commercial in sime
areas). Therefore, they are deriving revenue from the use of the local
facilities and they should have the operating revenues generated from
these charges to re-invest in local switches, etc. The local per
minuite rate in our markets is not inexpensive, and is charged to all
call originators.
R S Ashton
Ashton Communications Corporation
ACNET.NET
On Fri, 10 Nov 1995
Jeff.Ogden@um.cc.umich.edu wrote:
> The question is where are the real costs of a local phone call?
> Are they in the call setup? Are they in the length of time for
> the call? Some combination? What switch resources need to be expanded
> to deal with long holding time calls? What switch resources can be
> reduced if you need to process fewer call setups?
>
> It is possible that modem calls are a bad deal for phone companies, but
> it is also possible they are a good deal. Does anyone really know?
>
> -Jeff Ogden
> Merit
>
