Telephone service and rates; Report of the Committee on Gas, Oil and Electric Light, to the City Council of Chicago. September 3, 1907 - Softcover
Synopsis
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. 1907 Excerpt: ...ultimately proved successful, the confusion resulting from defects which always appear in new and untried apparatus would probably produce confusion for many months after the plant was put in operation. (c) The methods of charging and rates proposed by the Manufacturers' Company are not adapted to enable the company to give first class service throughout the city and pay ordinary interest on the investment, after setting aside reasonable reserves for depreciation and contingencies, and the company's operations, if extended throughout the city, would 'ultimately result in financial difficulties or an application to the Council for the privilege of changing their schedule of rates. 2. Measured rates should be adopted for general service, because (a) They require each user to pay for his service in proportion io what he uses. This makes it possible for the telephone operating company to base its rates for each class of service on the actual cost of the service, thereby bringing the service within the means of the largest number of people and expanding it so as to be of the maximum usefulness in the city. (b) Measured rates largely cut off frivolous and otherwise useless messages, thereby leaving the subscribers' lines open for all important messages. (c) The reduction of calls per telephone following the general use of measured rates results in a great reduction of the unavailing calls, which are now approximately one-third of the total calls in Chicago, and it thereby reduces the expenses of operating, and this makes a general reduction in the rates practicable.. (d) The introduction of measured rates tends to level off the loac'. curve, reducing the relative height of the peaks, so that the actual cost of operating for each message passed through the hands o...
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