The new demand for telecoms traffic data: From MiTT to maps

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 623-631

  Staple, Gregory C ^a  

^a TeleGeography Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC STATISTICS;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 0030264497     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0308-5961(96)00045-6     Document Type: Article

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2. See eg TeleGeography 1995 TeleGeography, Washington, DC (1995). See also the Web sites referenced in Krumenaker L, 'Surveyors of Cyberspace' Network World 1996 (June) 69-74 (notably, http://www.mids.org).
3. See eg TeleGeography 1995 TeleGeography, Washington, DC (1995). See also the Web sites referenced in Krumenaker L, 'Surveyors of Cyberspace' Network World 1996 (June) 69-74 (notably, http://www.mids.org).
4. TeleGeography 1995 op cit Ref 2.
5. The FCC has tentatively concluded that, at least for an interim period, interconnection rates paid by competing wireless telephone companies for local wireline switching facilities and connections to end users should be priced on a bill-and-keep basis (ie both the local wireline carrier and wireless provider should be charged nothing for terminating traffic). See Notice of Proposed Rulemaking FCC 95-505, Common Carrier Docket No 95-185, released 11 January 1996.
6. Staple, GC and Mullins, M 'Telecom traffic statistics - MiTT matter improving economic forecasting and regulatory policy' Telecommunications Policy Vol 14 1989 (June) 105-128.
7. Op cit Ref 2. See also http://www. telegeography.com
8. Direction of Traffic International Telecommunication Traffic Statistics (1983-1992) International Telecommunication Union/ TeleGeography, Geneva (1994) (a new edition will be published in 1996).
9. See Communications Outlook 1995 OECD, Paris (1995).
10. See the FCC's Web site at http:// www.fcc.gov/; for OFTEL see http://www. open.gov.uk/oftel/oftelwww/oftelhm.html.
11. See the FCC's Web site at http:// www.fcc.gov/; for OFTEL see http://www. open.gov.uk/oftel/oftelwww/oftelhm.html.
12. See also http://www.itu.ch/ for ITU's Web site.
13. Notice of Proposed Rulemaking op cit Ref 4.
14. According to Pacific Telesis, 94% of wireline-cellular telephone exchange traffic terminates on its wireline network in California, and 6% terminates on cellular telephone networks even though cellular traffic has grown at 20% annually in the 1990s. Notice of Proposed Rulemaking op cit Ref 4, 40.
15. For a preliminary survey of worldwide IPL circuits and traffic, see TeleGeography 1996, TeleGeography, Washington, DC 1996.
16. See eg Venditto, G 'Internet phones the future is calling' Internet World 1996 (June) 40-52; Muller, N 'Dial 1-800-Internet' Byte Magazine 1996 (February) 83-88; Michalski, J 'The economics of connectivity' Release 1.0 31 December 1995. See also Jeff Mackie-Mason's Web site at the University of Michigan (http: // gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu / Econ Internet/AllSubjects.html) and Jeff Pulver's Web site at http://www.pulver.com.
17. See eg Venditto, G 'Internet phones the future is calling' Internet World 1996 (June) 40-52; Muller, N 'Dial 1-800-Internet' Byte Magazine 1996 (February) 83-88; Michalski, J 'The economics of connectivity' Release 1.0 31 December 1995. See also Jeff Mackie-Mason's Web site at the University of Michigan (http: // gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu / Econ Internet/AllSubjects.html) and Jeff Pulver's Web site at http://www.pulver.com.
18. See eg Venditto, G 'Internet phones the future is calling' Internet World 1996 (June) 40-52; Muller, N 'Dial 1-800-Internet' Byte Magazine 1996 (February) 83-88; Michalski, J 'The economics of connectivity' Release 1.0 31 December 1995. See also Jeff Mackie-Mason's Web site at the University of Michigan (http: // gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu / Econ Internet/AllSubjects.html) and Jeff Pulver's Web site at http://www.pulver.com.
19. See eg Venditto, G 'Internet phones the future is calling' Internet World 1996 (June) 40-52; Muller, N 'Dial 1-800-Internet' Byte Magazine 1996 (February) 83-88; Michalski, J 'The economics of connectivity' Release 1.0 31 December 1995. See also Jeff Mackie-Mason's Web site at the University of Michigan (http: // gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu / Econ Internet/AllSubjects.html) and Jeff Pulver's Web site at http://www.pulver.com.
20. See eg Venditto, G 'Internet phones the future is calling' Internet World 1996 (June) 40-52; Muller, N 'Dial 1-800-Internet' Byte Magazine 1996 (February) 83-88; Michalski, J 'The economics of connectivity' Release 1.0 31 December 1995. See also Jeff Mackie-Mason's Web site at the University of Michigan (http: // gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu / Econ Internet/AllSubjects.html) and Jeff Pulver's Web site at http://www.pulver.com.
21. See Tufte, ER The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Graphics Press, Chesire, CT (1984) and Tufte, ER Envisioning Information Graphics Press, Chesire, CT (1990). These two books are already classics in the field.
22. See Tufte, ER The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Graphics Press, Chesire, CT (1984) and Tufte, ER Envisioning Information Graphics Press, Chesire, CT (1990). These two books are already classics in the field.
23. For an ingenious presentation of local calling data in a non-geographic format, see Eick, SG and Fyock, DE 'Visualizing corporate data' AT&T Technical Journal 1996 75(1) 74-85.
24. For further information on the CTIA's 'Wireless SourceDisks', contact catalog@ctia.org.