Comparative Costs of Base Administrative Telephone Service Provided by Commercial and Government Telephone Plants

摘要

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the comparative cost of AF base administrative telephone service provided by government and commercial telephone plants. Fiscal year 1979 costs were suveyed and compared for 10 commercial and 10 government telephone plants. Cost data was normalized by using annual cost per main station. Study revealed that for existing commercial and government plants, there was no statistical difference in the annual Operations and Maintenance cost per main station. When indirect and overhead costs are allocated to the telephone plants then the annual cost per main station for a government plant is significantly higher than like cost for commercial plants.