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In article , PeterN
wrote: I believe the PR flacks to that extent. you believe what you want to believe rather than investigate the real story. So tell use the "real story." i have been. |
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In article , Floyd L. Davidson
wrote: Businesses that need business phones pay a lot more for that, even though there's usually no reason for it. When I started my own business I called the phone company to ask whether I had to have a business phone. They told me no, as long as I didn't answer the phone with a business name. There's no logic at all to that. It's just what the market will bear combined with lack of regulation. When systems go down, business phones get priority in repair.(at least in theory.) in practice too. Obviously you've never been up a pole or in a cable vault. The circuits that can be positively identified get repaired first. If a cable is damaged by fire and the lineman finds 200 charred wires and 50 wires with sufficient insulation to determine the color code, he'll repair those 50 wires first just to get them out of the way. He's not going to go through a bundle of charred, bare wires looking for business circuits. obviously, you haven't a clue. this isn't about major outages due to fire that affects thousands of customers. if there's a problem with *your* line, business class service will have someone out to fix it within a couple of hours, while residential will be whenever they get around to it. tech support will be a higher tier, staffed by people with a clue, not the "did you reset your modem? did you reboot your computer?" businesses generally can't afford downtime, while residential customers can, thus the higher price. business class service may also offer services not available to residential customers, such as static ip, no prohibition on servers and/or no blocking of ports. (Disclosu I have never been up a telephone pole. I have been in a few cable vaults.) too bad you didn't stay in one of them. Years ago, United Telco in central PA rationalized the higher business rate because it included a Yellow Pages listing. This was back in the day when only the local telco published a phone book. who cares. it's not years ago anymore. Nospam is totally clueless. Trouble ticket systems That don't differentiate between business and residental. The tech with the windshield wipers may never even know what was being worked on the tech doesn't need to know nor does he decide what to fix. he gets sent out to fix something and he fixes it. It happens that business phones are important, but not more so than residential phones. On the grand scheme of things the industry has always been based on the idea that no one phone is more important, because it is that other phone that calls it. Put a phone on every tree and under every rock, and that is what generates the traffic, not a phone that has a CEO at the end. https://www.atlantech.net/blog/whats...n-residential- and-business-fiber-internet Another significant difference between business and residential fiber is service level agreements (SLAs). For most residential Internet users, a loss of Internet connectivity is unacceptable, but still just represents a mild inconvenience. The results of a loss of Internet connectivity can be devastating to business productivity. While fiber Internet eliminates many of the reliability concerns associated with high-speed cable Internet, business continuity is still critical. https://arstechnica.com/information-...y-i-pay-extra- for-business-class-broadband-at-home/ Tech support. Calling an ISP's technical support line can be a horrible, frustrating experience. Understanding that businesses are on the hook for more money than consumers and that they need reliable support, ISPs treat business-class accounts far better. All ISPs have separate support lines for business-class customers; some, including Comcast, actually assign dedicated account representatives, eliminating the need to wait in the phone queue for most questions. In addition, business-class customers usually get priority over residential customers when scheduling technician visits. other differences include: No caps. Unblocked ports.* Static IP addresses.* I never climbed a pole either. But as an IXC trouble shooter I've given more technical advice to LEC's than you can shake a stick at. that has nothing to do with class of service. |
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In article , Mayayana
wrote: | That sounds familiar. IIRC some folks were collecting Internet names, | and selling them for a large profit. That practice was stopped, but I am | not certain how. It was? I'd be interested if anyone has any links about that. I read at one point that various entities were actually somehow tracking Google searches and then buying domain names before someone searching could buy them -- then offering to sell that domain. I wonder how such a practice can be stopped. (A similar thing now happens on Wall St. By setting up computers in close physical proximity, companies can get news of trades milliseconds before others do and make automated trades. It's basically cheating the casino, but so far it's legal.) although this article is from 2008, the practice still exists today. https://techcrunch.com/2008/01/10/ne...-questionable- tactic-to-sell-more-domain-names/ As of Tuesday, if a user does a search on the site for a domain name, Network Solution immediately registers the domain in their own name. If the user then goes to a discount registrar to register the domain, it shows as unavailable. The user must then either not buy the domain, or go back to Network Solutions and pay their $35/year fee. .... This isnąt costing the company anything, either. Registrars are permitted to register domains for five days without paying any fees to the domain name registry (in this case, Verisign). If they delete the domains after 5 days, which they will almost certainly do, they do not pay for the registration. |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: ... Bloomberg fundamentally misunderstood what was going on. Qualcomm wants to collect a certain sum by way of license and whether you express this as X% of the cost of the phone or 8X% of the cost of a chip is immaterial. nonsense. there is absolute no justification whatsoever for the price of a component to be based on the device in which it's used. zero. I guess you never heard of value based pricing. i guess you haven't a clue. value based pricing isn't the issue. |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: ... Bloomberg fundamentally misunderstood what was going on. Qualcomm wants to collect a certain sum by way of license and whether you express this as X% of the cost of the phone or 8X% of the cost of a chip is immaterial. nonsense. there is absolute no justification whatsoever for the price of a component to be based on the device in which it's used. zero. I've already quoted specialists in the field explaining why it can be a good idea and is common practice. no you didn't. not only is it not common, but you failed to name another company that engages in such predatory tactics. not a single one. what a company does with the parts they buy does not change the price they pay for it, something you even agreed with. you are defending the indefensible. Wrong. Again simply Google "value based pricing." value based pricing isn't the issue. You may actually learn something. more than you have. now try explaining it to mayayana who thinks it's gouging. |
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In article , Bill W
wrote: Businesses that need business phones pay a lot more for that, even though there's usually no reason for it. When I started my own business I called the phone company to ask whether I had to have a business phone. They told me no, as long as I didn't answer the phone with a business name. There's no logic at all to that. It's just what the market will bear combined with lack of regulation. When systems go down, business phones get priority in repair.(at least in theory.) in practice too. Obviously you've never been up a pole or in a cable vault. The circuits that can be positively identified get repaired first. If a cable is damaged by fire and the lineman finds 200 charred wires and 50 wires with sufficient insulation to determine the color code, he'll repair those 50 wires first just to get them out of the way. He's not going to go through a bundle of charred, bare wires looking for business circuits. obviously, you haven't a clue. this isn't about major outages due to fire that affects thousands of customers. if there's a problem with *your* line, business class service will have someone out to fix it within a couple of hours, while residential will be whenever they get around to it. tech support will be a higher tier, staffed by people with a clue, not the "did you reset your modem? did you reboot your computer?" businesses generally can't afford downtime, while residential customers can, thus the higher price. business class service may also offer services not available to residential customers, such as static ip, no prohibition on servers and/or no blocking of ports. (Disclosu I have never been up a telephone pole. I have been in a few cable vaults.) too bad you didn't stay in one of them. Years ago, United Telco in central PA rationalized the higher business rate because it included a Yellow Pages listing. This was back in the day when only the local telco published a phone book. who cares. it's not years ago anymore. Nospam is totally clueless. Trouble ticket systems That don't differentiate between business and residental. The tech with the windshield wipers may never even know what was being worked on It's always been my experience that there are not only different phone numbers for residential and business service, but there are also different tech departments. It's also been my experience that response times are *much* faster for business lines. exactly correct. |
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On Sun, 04 Jun 2017 12:14:42 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Bill W wrote: Businesses that need business phones pay a lot more for that, even though there's usually no reason for it. When I started my own business I called the phone company to ask whether I had to have a business phone. They told me no, as long as I didn't answer the phone with a business name. There's no logic at all to that. It's just what the market will bear combined with lack of regulation. When systems go down, business phones get priority in repair.(at least in theory.) in practice too. Obviously you've never been up a pole or in a cable vault. The circuits that can be positively identified get repaired first. If a cable is damaged by fire and the lineman finds 200 charred wires and 50 wires with sufficient insulation to determine the color code, he'll repair those 50 wires first just to get them out of the way. He's not going to go through a bundle of charred, bare wires looking for business circuits. obviously, you haven't a clue. this isn't about major outages due to fire that affects thousands of customers. if there's a problem with *your* line, business class service will have someone out to fix it within a couple of hours, while residential will be whenever they get around to it. tech support will be a higher tier, staffed by people with a clue, not the "did you reset your modem? did you reboot your computer?" businesses generally can't afford downtime, while residential customers can, thus the higher price. business class service may also offer services not available to residential customers, such as static ip, no prohibition on servers and/or no blocking of ports. (Disclosu I have never been up a telephone pole. I have been in a few cable vaults.) too bad you didn't stay in one of them. Years ago, United Telco in central PA rationalized the higher business rate because it included a Yellow Pages listing. This was back in the day when only the local telco published a phone book. who cares. it's not years ago anymore. Nospam is totally clueless. Trouble ticket systems That don't differentiate between business and residental. The tech with the windshield wipers may never even know what was being worked on It's always been my experience that there are not only different phone numbers for residential and business service, but there are also different tech departments. It's also been my experience that response times are *much* faster for business lines. exactly correct. One concession I would make is that it's not necessarily true in small, relatively isolated towns with small, independent providers. I would think it's consistently true in bigger cities anywhere in the country. |
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Bill W wrote:
It's always been my experience that there are not only different phone numbers for residential and business service, but there are also different tech departments. It's also been my experience that response times are *much* faster for business lines. What perspective is your "experience"? Ever work in the telecom industry, or did you observe this as a customer? I have never even seen a telcom company with different departments for residential and business services. Some numbers may be in blocks, but that isn't based on type of service, it's base on how many lines any given customer orders. Routine trouble tickets are handled on a first come first serve basis, and obviously if there is a problem that puts it on hold it goes back into the que. What does make a difference is not business service as such, but bought and paid for Priority Service. The FAA, as an example, commonly orders circuts with various different priority levels. One of those is one hour response time! You can imagine the money that costs them, but it means that an hour after they report a problem they fully expect to be able to ask for a status report and it had better not be that nothing at all has happened! In a common case that I experienced many times the only response possible was to schedule a chartered aircraft, and that had better be what the status report says. If there are weather delays, that has to be on the ticket. (For several years I co-ordinated the Fairbanks Testboard trouble ticket system with the FAA folks in Anchorage. It happened that they had hired a retired tech that I'd worked with for years, so we knew exactly how to communicate with each other.) -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Utqiagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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nospam wrote:
Nospam is totally clueless. Trouble ticket systems That don't differentiate between business and residental. The tech with the windshield wipers may never even know what was being worked on the tech doesn't need to know nor does he decide what to fix. he gets sent out to fix something and he fixes it. Usually the tech is exactly the person who chooses which trouble ticket gets attention. Any other way results in *stupid* mistakes being made. The next biggest mistake with trouble ticket systems is choosing one that is really good at generating reports for management and as a result very poor for dispatching troubles! That is common. ATT on the other hand was always famous for using a bureaucratic boondoggle that was designed to make upper level administration of management methods easier, without much concern about mid or lower level management efficiency, and with no concern about how it functioned at the technician level. The Bell System was an astounding bureaucracy, that even after divestiture could not be corrected even by a Board of Directors that tried hard in the 90's to change it. They eventually through up their hands and sold it to Bell South and walked away. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Utqiagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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