[2075] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: T1 Rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen D Crocker)
Thu Jan 23 19:48:26 1992
To: David Lassner <david@hula.oit.hawaii.edu>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 23 Jan 92 10:45:18 -1000.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 92 18:20:59 -0500
From: Stephen D Crocker <crocker@TIS.COM>
I'm very interested in this info too. I've had occasion to gather some
of this data for the L.A. and D.C. areas, but I don't have current
data. One detail to be aware of is that there are multiple tariffs,
even for intra-LATA. If the data is "contaminated", which means
inextricably mixed with interstate data, then a federal tariff such as
FCC 1 or FCC 128 may apply. In many localities, this is a better
tariff than the state tariff. In CA, however, the reverse may be true;
some PUCs are tougher than others.
As a rule of thumb, the formulas tariffs have the form:
Inst + Const/mo + A/mo + B*m/mo, where
Inst is the installation cost,
Const is the base charge for a "zero distance" circuit, i.e.
connecting two sites which share the same local office,
A is zero if the distance is zero or some charge for stepping out of
the local office, and
B is the cost per mile per month for mileage between offices.
Rough numbers, somewhat out of date, for the D.C. area are:
Const = $225
A = $ 25
B = $ 30/mile
(I don't remember installation costs; I've seen numbers as low as a
couple hundred dollars and as high as $5500 in L.A.)
When I was working on this a couple of years ago, I built some nice
graphs showing the cost comaprisons for various tariffs in my area.
I suspect that all of this information is available in an organized
form, but I don't know where it is or how to get it. Maybe someone in
the FCC has the database. It's all public information...
Steve
