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    #32
    The Clown Man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭The Clown Man


    Originally posted by Gordon
    Must be as I'm sure they don't have competitive rates for "escalators".

    Roflmao!

    Had me laughing for a while :D


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    #33
    De Rebel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭De Rebel


    Originally posted by sceptre
    Before I say "almost nothing" ........................

    Its even closer to nothing than "almost nothing" Eircom is obliged to maintain the infrastructure, even if it is not used. If no calls were to be made for a day/week/year, they would still pay for electricity in exchanges, rent and rates, lang3rs driving around in vans, ould biddies being unhelpful on the 1901 dis-service and so on.

    The marginal cost of all the "own network terminated" calls made in a day (as oposed to all phones being left on hook) is a few kilo watts of electricity.

    The real issue here is the capacity ratio. That is the ratio of lines and Exchanges to phones. The design of a voice network models (usually) short calls. Its use for data/internet involves a different usage pattern (longer calls) and ties up lines and exchange equipment for a lot longer. Or so the theory goes.

    The reality is that the lines/exchanges are coping admirably. There are almost no capacity constraints in the Eircom network at present, despite the huge rise in data/Inter net usage in the last 10 years. Because of the huge investment in the 1980s the country has oodles of fibre and digital exchanges which can easily cope with capacity enhancement when required. If Eircom offered a flat rate service for 10 Euro a month it is unlikely that the volume of calls/ duration of calls would more than double. And the bulk of the network constraints could quickly be upgraded to handle that.

    The real issue here is revenue. 1892 will do a lot to heighten awareness. People are being bled by this per second billing lark. Eircom is making a fortune from it. It is covering gross operational inefficiencies, shielding the company from the real world.

    Clearly Eircom's policy is to maintain revenue, cut costs and pocket the savings. The "right" thing to do would be to cut costs and cut prices. But this is capitalism.


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