prepaid phone card calling prices not easily knowable
Preventing prepaid phone card companies from engaging in deceptive practices is a difficult challenge. … Read the post prepaid phone card calling prices not easily knowable
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personal services for economically managing communications
Personal communication management services could create more value if they integrated with customers’ service prices and service use data. … Read the post personal services for economically managing communications
user access to billing-relevant use data
Customers often lack a decision-relevant understanding of service bills. How much and in what ways a customer uses a service usually affects the size of the customer’s bill. In such circumstances, customers’ access to data on their own use of a service is an important aspect of market structure. Customers choices of wireless calling plans … Continue reading user access to billing-relevant use data
tariff inflation increases regulatory obligations
Publicly filed tariffs have been an important element of federal economic regulation in the U.S. since the formation of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887. U.S. local exchange telephone companies currently file federal tariffs for their interstate access services. These tariffs are publicly available through the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s Electronic Tariff Filing System (ETFS). … Continue reading tariff inflation increases regulatory obligations
service pricing semantics and ontology
Prices for ongoing services often are much less clear than prices for retail-store products that have a price tag affixed to them. Services do not have a natural physical unit, like an item that you pick up from a shelf. Compared to a one-time purchase of physical products, an ongoing service purchase has much lower … Continue reading service pricing semantics and ontology