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- From: MCMANGPH@NUSVM.BITNET (Ang Peng Hwa)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Residential vs Business LD (was All Circuits Are Busy...)
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 09:22:48 GMT
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- Dave Ptasnik wrote:
-
- > With a higher percentage of business usage, most OCCs have very
- > litte traffic on their switches at nights, on weekends, and
- > holidays. The trunks that are busily full during the day sit idle.
-
- > We used periodically to get directives from our switch manager
- > to sell more residential accounts, and try to busy up the lines
- > at night a little more.
-
- I am trying to develop a theory around the facts provided above to
- argue that there are limits to competition in the long-distance
- market. (Ok, I know I'm treading on sacred grounds here.)
-
- One of my arguments is that for true long-distance competition --
- along the line of the USA model -- vs phony LD competition as in UK,
- there must be a diversity of users: both residential and business.
-
- As Dave noted, the residential users typically call in the evenings,
- when trunks are idle.
-
- While Dave notes the difficulty of finding residential users with more
- than $50 in LD charges, I am finding difficulty obtaining the relevant
- data to prove the point.
-
- I'm still developing the idea so inputs sans flames are welcome.
-