communications industry structure, including mass media, advertising, and telephone companies
Communications services today are perceived to succeed or fail within months. Within that time, fashion may be more important than economic fundamentals, and long-run patterns can easily be obscured. Historical data helps to provide an alternate view. Consider telephone service in the U.S. in 1927 and 2007. In 1927, telephone service had been widely … Continue reading long-run patterns in communications service adoption
Because large business customers are much larger and more geographically concentrated than large residential customers, business communications services tend to be more competitive than residential communications services. Nonetheless, from 1980 to 2007, business lines rose from 25% to 37% of public switched telephone lines of larger U.S. incumbent local-exchange telephone companies.[1] Over that same period, … Continue reading structural change boosts business communications
Yellow Pages print directories currently are distributed to all residences in an area unless a resident explicitly opts out of receiving a directory. Many persons not interested in receiving a print directory probably don’t bother to opt out. The result is wasted money and wasted natural resources in distributing, re-collecting, and recyling unwanted directories. An … Continue reading opt-in for Yellow Pages print directory distribution?
New advertising world: 418 pounds of yellow pages directories were dropped at my apartment complex, not picked up, and then carted away. … Read the post yellow pages print directory distribution
The most popular given names have become much less popular over the past two centuries. In the U.K. about 1800, about 85% of males and 82% of females had names that were among the ten most popular given names for males and females, respectively. Apart from temporary effects of the Norman Conquest in 1066 and … Continue reading describing name frequency distributions