|
Posted by on November 23, 2007, 11:41 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
On Nov 23, 10:10 am, bon...@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
wrote:
> Where: big city, central financial district.
>
> Why: I make a _lot_ of calls during busy hours, into similarly congested
> areas. Almost all of them inter-LATA.
I dunno. I've worked in cities for many years and never had more than
an intermittent problem (probably my own dialing error) calling within
the central business district or long distance to other city centers.
Now, I've worked in places with inadequate PBX service, but that was
the result of the administration not providing for adequate capacity
(subsequent fixed).
> Ignoring the labor cost, you have a point. unfortunately, labor _is_
> a big, and *ever-rising* part of the total cost picture.
I dare say if you found out the number of baby-Bell employees per line
at Jan 1 1984 and today, I dare say you'd find far less people per
line than in the past. Stuff is far more automated, both what the
subscriber sees and what is done behind the scenes. Likewise with the
long distance carriers. (DSL makes it tricky, since that's
essentially two lines per subscriber given on a single line. Computer
geeks used to have a separate line for their PC, now they use DSL.)
| ![[Telecom] Re: Emergency call boxes still in use article](/images/header.jpg)
NewsGroups 
Yahoo! 
Google 
Windows Live 
del.icio.us 
digg 
Netscape 
XML site map