This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...amount of service originated by a subscriber calls for a larger investment in certain portions of the plant than would be requisite to care for the wants of a subscriber with a similar line but smaller traffic thereover. To meet the expense entailed on the first ground, namely, that the subscriber contracts for service ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...amount of service originated by a subscriber calls for a larger investment in certain portions of the plant than would be requisite to care for the wants of a subscriber with a similar line but smaller traffic thereover. To meet the expense entailed on the first ground, namely, that the subscriber contracts for service, and the investment required to place a telephone at the disposal of the subscriber must, therefore, be supported, the telephone company ought to obtain from every subscriber an annual sum depending upon the character of his line, even if he does not. originate a single message per year. The company should also receive additional sums, depending on the amounts of the traffic of the various subscribers. We compute that the minimum annual sum that the telephone company must now receive to meet interest and expenses entailed by the readiness-to-serve and service-rendered investment in the Metropolitan zone is practically $20 for the average subscriber to a four-party coin-box telephone, $39 for the subscriber to a single-party measured-rate business telephone, and $80 for the average subscriber to a single-party flat-rate business telephone. The difference between the last two figures is caused by the fact that the average traffic of the flat-rate telephones is much larger than the average traffic of the measured-rate telephones, and the service-rendered investment is correspondingly larger. The figures are derived by using the recent valuations of the company's property in conjunction with the records of the subscribers' traffic and the current expense accounts of the telephone company. These figures are reasonably correct estimates, although the company's existing accounting system does not furnish the detailed information required to make exa...
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