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Standardizing telephone rates to balance service value and investment costs
This book explains a plan to set telephone rates by averaging across similar exchanges and adjusting them with bonuses or penalties for each community’s service quality and development. It focuses on making rates fair to both subscribers and the investing companies, while guarding against abuses from competition or monopoly.
The material explores how rate curves are built from typical exchanges, how bonuses and penalties reflect factors like territory, call load, and service development, and how these ideas could be applied by public-utility commissions. It also discusses how to respond to changes in price levels and advances in telephony, so rates stay fair over time.
- How average rates for exchanges of the same size determine a fair baseline
- How bonuses and penalties adjust those rates for territory, demand, and service quality
- How to track costs and service metrics to inform adjustments
- How commissions might apply the plan and respond to economic or technological changes
Ideal for readers interested in public-utility regulation, rate design, and telecommunications policy.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book explores telephone rate standardization, presenting an alternative system to the current cost plus model which the author argues is flawed. The current system lacks incentives for efficiency and good service, is complex and expensive to implement, does not always reflect the value of the service to the customer, and can be inequitable. The author proposes a new system based on average rates for exchanges of similar size, with bonuses and penalties applied to account for variations in natural obstacles, quality of service, and value to the community. This system offers several advantages: it reduces the workload for regulators, provides incentives for good management, promotes harmony between stakeholders, and ensures rates are fair and reflect the value of the service provided. The author argues that this new system would be more logical, fair, and effective than the current system and provides a comprehensive analysis of the current system's shortcomings and the potential benefits of the proposed solution. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the regulation and pricing of telecommunications services. Its insights into the problems with the current system and the potential solutions it proposes will be of great value to regulators, policymakers, and telecommunications industry professionals. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781332224838_0
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