Download or read book Telecommunications Cost Management written by Brian Dimarsico and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Busy decision-makers need the specifics quickly, without plowing through details that do not affect the economics of a project. Telecommunications Cost Management presents the key facts up front, with sample calculations for broadband, local access, equipment, and service alternatives. It provides a blueprint for cost reduction across all major technologies - from frame relay to IP telephony to contract recommendations. The text presents scenarios showing the effect of different architectural strategies for both voice and data communications. An Architectural Review lists alternatives to the traditional PBX and discusses how to minimize local access costs.
Download or read book Telecommunications Cost Management written by S. C. Strother and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a practical cost management guide to the complex world of voice, data and wireless telecommunications for the non-technical business professional. Examining the complex, highly technical telecommunications industry from an insider's point of view, it sifts through all the technical jargon, offers a comprehensive education on the applications, services and procurement of telecom products, and provides a strategy to effectively manage the costs of those products and services. The book enables you to: understand telecom services; audit phone bills; reduce the cost of existing services and eliminate unnecessary ones; and efficiently negotiate new contracts and services.
Download or read book A Model for Calculating Interconnection Costs in Telecommunications written by Paul Noumba Um and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed cost model takes into account most features characterizing the development stage of telecommunications networks in Sub-Saharan Africa (small size of fixed network, importance of rural telephony, excessive reliance on microwave technology, explosive demand for mobile service, and weak regulatory capacity)."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Telecommunications Pricing written by Bridger M. Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-29 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematically reviews recent innovations in the economic theory of pricing and extends results to the conditions which characterize telecommunications markets
Download or read book Telecom Audit written by M S. Mastel and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phone systems, service, data networks, and the Internet are critical pieces of any company’s communications. And most IT professionals don’t understand the effects of deregulation and parallel technologies on the bottom line. Telecommunications companies have more than a 30% error rate on their billing each month. There are only about 4,000 telecom consultants in the country who do nothing but find errors on bills. The economy seems to be crying out for just this type of study. This work explores the various technologies in terms of cost and ROI, sets up some case studies to solve real communications issues, offers cheap ways to meet bandwidth requirements, looks at the players in the marketplace in terms of technology as well as cost, explains what a tariff is and how it can be made to work for you, gives a better understanding of telecom taxes, which ones are required and to what degree, and provides international strategies to manage costs of a national and global network. Reading this book will be like hiring that telecom consultant. ·SAVINGS!!! – realize 40-60% savings with the information contained in the book ·“Show me the money” demo included·Review – assessing bills to know if you’re overpaying·Analysis – benchmarking, comparative technologies, ROI, tariff info, etc.·Negotiation – how to work with your various services to ensure you’re getting the best rates possible·Cost Justification – finding costs in other areas to justify expenditure in technology·Vendor Management – understanding where and how to go to get the best price·Recovery of capital – finding out if and when you’ve overpaid, and getting back $ when it’s due·Tax Rebates, Relocations, Growth Assessment, and Telemanagement – exploring all the angles to get the most of your telecom dollars
Download or read book Telecom Expense Management for Large Organizations written by Claudio Basso and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing telecom expenses is not easy; whats more, the larger the organization is, the more complicated that management gets. In Telecom Expense Management for Large Organizations, authors Luiz Augusto de Carvalho and Claudio Basso, who have each worked for more than a decade in the telecommunications industry, share their wealth of knowledge so you can slash expenses and manage business properly. This practical guide is divided into five sections: managerial issues, managerial processes, bill processing, traffic analysis and specific aspects. Each section builds upon the previous one, helping you contract and negotiate with telecom service providers; design a well-controlled telecom structure; oversee the inventory of assets and services; manage contracts, processes, and challenges; and process invoices and navigate auditing processes. This book discusses several techniques which will help you to organize the telecom cost/expenses management in your organization. Take control of your organizations future and plot a path that can help you enhance the quality of your telecom expenses management .
Download or read book Are Cost Models Useful for Telecoms Regulators in Developing Countries written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As developing countries build up their capacity to regulate privatized infrastructure monopolies, cost models are likely to prove increasingly important in determining the efficient cost of providing a service to a certain area or type of customer. But cost models require reliable information, which is often scarce in developing countries. Census data and the location of wire services together may help provide the minimum information a regulator needs to implement a cost proxy model, a promising regulatory tool for assessing the efficient cost of providing a utility service.
Download or read book Telecommunications Expense Management written by Michael Brosnan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This straightforward book will provide you with the insight necessary to save your organization revenue through the processes of bill auditing, expense reduction, and savvy contract negotiations. Information technology professionals will find the authors' suggestions useful, and yet uncomplicated to implement. After you have used their suggestions
Download or read book International Telecommunications Policies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Access Pricing in Telecommunications written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of competition and the success of liberalisation measures within public utility industries often depends on access terms and conditions. Prepared by the OECD's Competition Committee, this report focuses on the regulation of access to essential facilities within the telecommunications industry, drawing on theory and practice of access pricing to help regulators and policy-makers learn from OECD experiences to achieve efficient and competitive outcomes.
Download or read book The Economics of Telecommunications Systems written by Noel D. Uri and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of formulating and implementing telecommunications policy in the United States often seems chaotic and disorganised, with overlapping responsibility and frequent conflicts among federal and state regulators, Congress, the Administration, and the Federal judiciary. There has never been a consensus on what should change and what should remain unaltered. Telecommunications policy has evolved gradually over a relatively long period of time, resulting in a cumulative major transformation. It is still tied, however, to the Communications Act of 1934. Actions have been taken that have gradually moved policy from traditional public utility regulation of a monopoly to greater reliance on market forces and encouragement of competition. The policies are an amalgam incorporating elements from a wide range of political and economic views. There is nothing endemic in this transformation process to guarantee that the resulting policies have led to greater economic efficiency or that they are better in some subjective sense than alternatives that are available. policies that have been implemented in order to evaluate their impact. An objective evaluation of the impact of a policy affords an opportunity to make adjustments to it based on the realised economic consequences. This approach to policy making can be looked upon as a learning-by-doing exercise. In this book a number of objective studies based on data from various telecommunications systems are presented. These studies discuss and evaluate policies that have been implemented. In a number of instances, the policies have been misguided. Recommendations to correct the most egregious problems are offered.
Download or read book Novel Algorithms and Techniques in Telecommunications Automation and Industrial Electronics written by Tarek Sobh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel Algorithms and Techniques in Telecommunications, Automation and Industrial Electronics includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Industrial Electronics, Technology and Automation, Telecommunications and Networking. Novel Algorithms and Techniques in Telecommunications, Automation and Industrial Electronics includes selected papers form the conference proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology and Automation (IETA 2007) and International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 07) which were part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information and Systems Sciences and Engineering (CISSE 2007).
Download or read book Telecommunication Economics written by Antonis M. Hadjiantonis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a collaborative and selected documentation of the scientific outcome of the European COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network" which run from October 2007 to October 2011. Involving experts from around 20 European countries, the goal of Econ@Tel was to develop a strategic research and training network among key people and organizations in order to enhance Europe's competence in the field of telecommunications economics. Reflecting the organization of the COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel in working groups the following four major research areas are addressed: - evolution and regulation of communication ecosystems; - social and policy implications of communication technologies; - economics and governance of future networks; - future networks management architectures and mechanisms.
Download or read book The Pricing Structure of Local Telephone Service written by James H. Alleman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Changing Nature of Telecommunications Information Infrastructure written by Steering Committee on the Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-04-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancement of telecommunications and information infrastructure occurs largely through private investment. The government affects the rate and direction of this progress through regulation and public investment. This book presents a range of positions and perspectives on those two classes of policy mechanism, providing a succinct analysis followed by papers prepared by experts in telecommunications policy and applications.
Download or read book The Telecommunications Act of 1996 The Costs of Managed Competition written by Dale E. Lehman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 envisioned a competitive free-for-all in the U.S. telecommunications industry with removal of barriers to entry in local telecommunications markets and the lifting of the artificial restrictions that kept the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) out of the interLATA long-distance market. After close to 5 years, only one RBOC has been granted permission (controversially) to enter the interLATA market, and local competition has yet to provide most consumers with meaningful choices. In addition, the wave of mergers across the industry has raised the specter of putting the former Bell System back together again. Policymakers now openly question whether the Act can deliver what it promised. Three principal themes are developed in this book. First, there has been a coordination failure between Congress and the FCC in translating the principles embodied in the Act into practice. The authors provide evidence for this by analyzing stock market reactions to legislative and regulatory actions. This coordination failure was largely predictable, given the ambiguity in the Act, as well as conflicting jurisdictions between the FCC and the states. Second, the Act calls for wholesale prices to be `based on cost.' Regulators adopted a costing standard (TELRIC) that provides a means to subsidize competitive entry in local telephone service markets. The ready adoption of the TELRIC standard by regulators is shown to be tied to the third theme: price cap regulation provides regulators with `insurance' against the adverse effects of competition in local telephone markets. Statistical analysis reveals that regulators in price cap states set uniformly lower unbundled network element prices (lower barriers to entry) in comparison with regulators in rate-of-return and earnings sharing states. The result is a triumph of regulatory processes over market processes - the antithesis of the purpose of the Act.
Download or read book Price Caps and Incentive Regulation in Telecommunications written by Michael A. Einhorn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael A. Einhorn In continuing to deregulate telecommunications companies, regulators have begun to consider alternative approaches to traditional cost-based price regulation as a means of encouraging monopoly efficiency, promulgating technological innova tion, protecting consumers, and reducing administrative costs. Under cost-based regulatory procedures that had been used, prices were designed to recover the regulated company's costs plus an allowed rate of return on its rate base; this strategy was costly to administer, provided no consistent incentives to cost-ef ficiency and technological improvement, afforded many opportunities for strategic misrepresentation of reported costs, and may have encouraged both uneconomic expansion of the utility's rate base and cross-subsidization of its competitive services. A category of alternative regulatory approaches can be classified broadly as social contracts. Under the general strategy of social contract regulation, regulators first delimit a group of regulated core services that they continue to regulate and then stipulate a list of constraints that the utility must agree to meet in the future; in exchange, regulators agree to detariff or deregulate entirely other competitive or nonessential services that the utility may offer. As long as no stipulated constraints are violated, the utility may price freely any service; if it reduces costs, it may keep a share of its profits. According to the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA, 1987), social contract agreements of one form or another have been considered or implemented in a majority of American states.
