Telephone services for small businesses is a significant segment of the communications industry. SOHO (small office/home office) is a widely recognized customer segment. The SOHO segment is large and growing relatively rapidly. In the U.S. in 2002, non-farm businesses with fewer than ten employees and with more than $10,000 in annual receipts numbered about 14 … Continue reading fancy telephone services for small businesses
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
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
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
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