Salem Telephone Company 1. In Exhibit 2, expenses fixed relative to revenue hours are: Rent, Custodial services, Computer leases, Maintenance, Computer equipment, Office equipment and fixtures, Operations: salaried staff, Systems development and maintenance, Administration, Sales, Sales promotion, and Corporate services. Expenses that are variable relative to revenue hours: Power, Operations: hourly personnel. 2. Power: $4.70 per revenue hour Operations (hourly personnel): $24.00 per revenue
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James Whittle Salem Telephone Company Case Study 9/29/2014 1.) The variable costs in Exhibit 2 are Power and Hourly Personnel Wages as the costs fluctuate from month to month and are driven by the revenue hours for the company. The fixed costs in Exhibit 2 are Rent, Custodial Services, Computer Equipment Leases, Computer Maintenance, Computer Depreciation, Office Equipment and Fixtures Depreciation, Salaried Staff Wages, Systems Development and Maintenance, Administrative Wages, Sales Wages
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1. Operations wages for hourly personnel and office equipment and fixtures are the only variable cost with respect to revenue hours. All other costs are fixed with respect to revenue hours. With higher fixed cost, Salem Data Services has a higher leverage and is therefore riskier. 2. ($7,896 + $1,546) / 329 hours = $28.70 / hour. For every hour spent working, the company spends 28.70 dollars. 3. Intracompany Commercial Total Number of Hours (a): 205 138 343 Revenue (a x b):
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HBS case – Salem Telephone Company Opening In 2000 the Public Service Commission (PSC) was informed by the president of Salem Telephone Company (STC) that a profitable computer service subsidiary would reduce pressure for increases to telephone rates. With approval from the Public Service Commission, STC, a regulated public utility, established Salem Data Services (SDS) in 2001, an unregulated public utility to perform data processing for the telephone company and additionally to sell computer
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mixed together and started a fire in the baggage car (Firth 18). Edison then went to work at Western Union as he was fascinated with the telegraph. He was also consulted to improve on a very new technology, the telephone. It was a disappointment to not be the first to discover the telephone, as he had been tinkering with his own ideas on speech delivered over wire (Firth 45). His
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Calling and texting are to excellent ways of communication, but texting is better. Texting allows so much more advantages then calling. Texting is faster, cheaper, and more convenient. Which makes it the better choice for communication. When having a conversation, a lot of people want it to be fast, an texting allows that. With texting you don’t have to hold a conversation and say hello, you can ask a question and end the conversation. For example did you know millions of people around the world
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Technology has been defined as the application of scientific methodology and knowledge for practical purposes. Over the years there has been a lot of technology being introduced none so much as the last quarter of a century where there has been some outstanding inventions by some outstanding individuals. Being able to award an individual the accolade of the greatest technology inventor of all time or a technology as the greatest invention of all time is a very daunting and overwhelming task as it
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establish a VoIP system in your home. Which of the following devices is necessary to connect your analog telephone to your VoIP server? a. Codec b. IP-PBX c. Softphone d. ATA 2. Skype, the popular Internet telephony service, provides a user with what type of interface? a. IP phone b. Analog telephone c. Softphone d. IP-PBX 3. A company’s use of VoIP on its WAN to avoid long distance telephone charges is known as: a. Toll bypass b. WAN redirect c. Fee gauging d. Circuit redirect 4
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Nekeisha Toppin FIN415 Principles of Finance Company Write-up AT&T About AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, downtown Dallas, Texas. AT&T is the largest provider both of mobile telephony and of fixed telephony in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services. AT&T is the third-largest company in Texas (the largest non-oil company, behind only ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips
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Voip and Ip Telephony Implementations [pic] VoIP and IP Telephony: Planning and Implementation Table of Contents Executive Summary………. Legacy Telephony Technology………. Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) ………. IP Technology Solution Overview………. What is VoIP and how it works?.......... What is IP Telephony? ) ………. Benefits of IP Communications over a Converged Intelligent Network) ………. Economy) ………. Flexibility) ………. Resilience) ………. Productivity) ………. Building Blocks of Converged
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