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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 06 Jan 93 10:04:04 EST
- From: tim gorman <71336.1270@CompuServe.COM>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Colorado Gets Caller ID
- Message-ID: <telecom13.10.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 10, Message 10 of 11
- Lines: 31
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- In TELECOM Digest V13, #8 I read the following concerning Caller ID
- penetration.
-
- Colorado (Richard Lucas): Heavy Demand at initial offering.
- Nevada (Centel) : 10% penetration
- IBT (Moderator) : Very popular service long term
- New Jersey (NJ Bell) : 4.6% penetration (no blocking available)
-
- Colorada has PUC mandated restrictions about blocking availability
- and, as I remember, so does IBT. I am unsure about Nevada -- does
- anyone know if blocking availablity is mandated there?
-
- I realize that initial demand in Colorado doesn't necessarily
- translate into similar long term demand, but for the sake of argument,
- assume it does. Let's also assume that Nevada has mandated blocking
- availability.
-
- That would mean that Caller ID penetration is higher in those areas
- with mandated blocking than in the area that doesn't have any blocking
- at all available. By more than double in the case of Nevada!
-
- Perhaps PacBell is making a marketing mistake by not offering caller
- id even though mandated blocking restrictions would apply? Perhaps
- their total revenues would be higher than if no blocking at all was
- available?
-
-
- Tim Gorman - SWBT
- *opinions are mine, any resemblance to official policy is coincidence*
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