Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!pollux!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Unequal Service Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 89 02:26:47 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 31 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 473, message 4 of 10 In article , john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) writes: > As an incentive to upgrade, I would propose that anyone served out of > an electromechanical office be charged some fixed amount less than > "equivalent" service out of an electronic office. For those of you > served by real telcos who upgraded long ago, this is not an issue. But > there are many prefixes in San Jose alone still "served" (term loosely > used) by #5 grossbar. Pac*Bell needs some kind of incentive to get its > act together. The cost of providing service with an electromechanical office is higher than the cost of providing service with an electronic office. Revenues for electronic offices are already higher than for electromechanical offices, because some percentage of the subscribers buy the extra-cost custom calling features. It would seem that the incentive is already there! But the real cost of either office depends upon how long it lives. Swapping out a central office switch before its time plays havoc with a delicate balance of rate-of-return and depreciation schedules. The schedule for a given central office may be pushed one way or another by the demands of the major business subscribers in its serving area; the over-all schedule is probably pretty well cast in stone by the telco _and_ the regulators. Dave Levenson Voice: (201) 647 0900 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave