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low bandwidth but geographically comprehensive connectivity has high value

Verizon introduced its National Discount Plan (NDP) on June 14, 2007. This “new, industry-leading, generally available plan for DS1 and DS3 Special Access services” offered terms that depended on a customer’s national volume of DS1s and DS3s purchased from Verizon. Publicly available FCC annual access tariff filings suggests that Verizon sold under the NDP about … Continue reading low bandwidth but geographically comprehensive connectivity has high value

telecom service innovation

On June 14, 2007, Verizon unveiled a National Discount Plan (NDP) for its DS1 and DS3 special access customers. In a press release announcing the new offering, a Verizon Vice President declared: In addition to serving our wholesale customers over one of the most advanced, reliable networks in the country, we’re offering a new discount … Continue reading telecom service innovation

revenue inertia in communications network services

In 2008, somewhere in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S., customers were still purchasing a total of 28 telegraph lines at a monthly rate of about $32 per line. While these twenty-first-century connections to the nineteenth century don’t have any economic significance, other seemingly outdated services generate large amounts of revenue. Consider 56 kpbs service, … Continue reading revenue inertia in communications network services

twenty years of bandwidth prices and demand

Some public data on prices and demand for U.S. interstate bandwidth in use from 1990 to 2009 are now conveniently available on the web. The source data, which are also freely available, are interstate access price-cap tariff filings made publicly at the FCC. Derived datasets compile demand and prices for trunking and special access interstate … Continue reading twenty years of bandwidth prices and demand