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trends in categories of fixed-line telephone service

Plain-old, fixed-line telephone service is shrinking rapidly. Consider US West, which became Qwest in 2000. It is a large local exchange telephone company (a former regional Bell Operating Company) serving the northwestern and mid-western U.S. US West – Qwest’s fixed-line residential and business switched-access telephone lines grew 3.3% and 6.0% per year, respectively, from 1991 … Continue reading trends in categories of fixed-line telephone service

terminating versus orginating telephone minutes

Payments between interconnecting telephone companies distinguish between terminating and originating telephone call minutes. You say let’s talk tonight. If I call you, my telephone company pays your telephone company per minute of our conversation. If you call me, your telephone company pays my telephone company per minute of our conversation. Telephone companies, and other companies … Continue reading terminating versus orginating telephone minutes

DS1 prices in New York State, 1993-2009

A price index for Verizon’s DS1 channel termination and channel mileage rate elements in New York State from 1993 to 2009 shows a 25% drop across those years. Adjusting for general price inflation using the GDP price index, that DS1 price decline is equivalent to an inflation-adjusted 4.0% decline per year from 1993 to 2009.[1] … Continue reading DS1 prices in New York State, 1993-2009

history of the U.S. long-distance telephone business

In 1982, a court order broke up AT&T, then by far the largest U.S. telephone company. The order began: Plaintiff, United States of America, having filed its complaint herein on January 14, 1949,…the parties, by their attorneys, having severally consented to a Final Judgment which was entered by the Court on January 24, 1956, … … Continue reading history of the U.S. long-distance telephone business

U.S. DS1 and DS3 network connectivity price trends

Publicly filed interstate rate detail from 1994 to 2009 for Ameritech, a large U.S. local telephone operating company, are now available in a more accessible and useful form. These rate elements are for communications services in U.S. mid-western states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Based on simple price indices, Ameritech’s DS1 and DS3 prices … Continue reading U.S. DS1 and DS3 network connectivity price trends