Commission Leaflets; Recent Commission Orders, Rulings and Decisions from the Following States (19-22) (English, German, Paperback)

Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1913 edition. Auszug: ...would still leave the conditions as far from the ideal as at present. The contribution which each subscriber should be required to make for the installation of his telephone, for the company's ability to be ready to serve, and towards return upon capital invested, would remain the same. It would leave the cost of service as the only variable element in the rate, and while conditions can be imagined under which the variation in this one element would be quite material, it would be almost incalculable in a small exchange where the gross business rate does not exceed eighteen dollars per year. Such a classification would still leave a small user in the particular class on the same basis with the larger user; the physician with one call a day would still be paying the same rate as the physician who received ten, and the corner grocery with one dozen calls would pay the same as the larger establishment that received a hundred. The business and professional man becomes a telephone subscriber undoubtedly to some extent for the convenience of calling others, but to a much greater extent that the general public may call him. In such exchanges the large number of persons who are not telephone subscribers, with the greatest freedom use the most convenient telephone to call those who are subscribers. Telephones in public places in the smaller exchanges are used almost as freely as drinking fountains on a public corner. In many exchanges as high as one-third of all calls received are from non-subscribers who make no contribution for the service they receive. This is an operating cost that must of necessity be placed upon the subscriber to the business telephone. These conditions, as in so many other...