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