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Telecommunications cost management / S.C. Strother.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strother, S. C.
- Series:
- Artech House telecommunications library.
- Artech House telecommunications library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information theory.
- Telecommunication--Cost control.
- Telecommunication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Artech House, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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. Publisher abstract.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Background of the telecom industry
- The complete do-it-yourself telecom audit
- Local service
- Local lines
- Local calls
- Intralata calling
- Long-distance calls on local bills
- Managing your payphones
- Customer service records
- Long-distance overview and sample bill
- Long-distance pricing
- Long-distance contract discounts
- Dedicated service
- Data networking essentials
- Dedicated private lines
- Circuit switching
- Packet switching
- New data networking services
- Wireless telecommunications service
- Mobile phone rate plans
- Airtime
- Paging service
- Contract negotiation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 307) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58053-562-3
- OCLC:
- 70740519
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