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1 online resource (392 pages) |
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CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I. INTRODUCTION -- 1 Mythologies of Canadian Telecommunications -- Pattern Recognition -- The First Myth: Technological Nationalism -- The Second Myth: Technological Dependence -- A Third Myth: Technology and Industrial Structuring -- A Fourth Myth: Efficacy of Regulation -- Yet Another Myth: Gales of Creative Destruction -- Outline -- 2 Telecommunications Today -- Telecommunications Defined -- Supremacy of the Telephone -- Facilities Configuration -- Services Configuration -- Definitional Problems |
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Telephone Industry StructurePART II. THE TELEGRAPH -- 3 Onset of Electronic Communication -- Inception -- Province of Canada -- New Brunswick -- Nova Scotia -- The Telegraph and Industrialization -- The Press Connection -- The Railway Connection -- The Postal Service -- Economic Growth -- 4 Cartelization -- Central Canada -- Atlantic Region and American Control -- 5 The Telegraph Coast-to-Coast -- British Columbia -- Prairies -- Canadian Pacific Telegraphs -- Separation of Content from Carriage -- Canadian National Telegraphs |
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CNCP TelecommunicationsPART III. THE TELEPHONE -- 6 Inception -- Parallels -- Telephone Wars -- The Charter -- A Riddle -- Consolidation -- Segregation -- 7 Independent Telephones -- A Severe Loss -- Tactical Withdrawals -- Quebec -- Ontario -- The West -- Independent Telephones in the United States -- Rural Lines in Quebec in 1905 -- Rural Lines in Ontario in 1905 -- Municipal Telephones -- The Prairies -- Railway Contracts -- Exclusive Franchises -- Conclusions -- 8 The Politics of Government Control -- Petitions -- Commons Uproar |
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Parliamentary InquiryIn Laurier's Hands -- 9 Western Reaction -- Manitoba -- Saskatchewan -- Alberta -- British Columbia -- 10 Local-Exchange Competition in Ontario and Quebec -- A Note on Exposition -- The New Act -- An Early Boom -- Back in Parliament -- 'Rate Rebalancing' � Phase I -- Locking the Barn-door -- 'Reversed Rate Rebalancing' -- 11 Long-Distance Competition and Reversed Rate Rebalancing -- Northern Telephone -- CNCP Interconnection -- Additional Complexities -- Recapitulation -- 12 Natural Monopoly: Arguments and Evidence |
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OriginThe First Prop: Economies of Scale -- The Second Prop: Service Universality through Cross-subsidization -- The Third Prop: Systemic Integrity -- Conclusions -- 13 Unnatural Monopoly: Predatory Pricing and the Cost Inquiry -- A Double-Edged Sword -- Inklings of Abuse -- CTC Cost Inquiry -- CRTC Cost Inquiry -- 14 Rate Regulation -- Context -- Legislative Ambiguity -- Regulation of Interprovincial Toll -- Intraterritory Rate Regulation -- 15 Juggling Corporate Forms -- Straining Gnats, Swallowing Camels -- Persona Ficta -- Northern Telecom |
Summary |
Babe reintroduces the principle of corporate/governmental responsibility for communication outcomes, a principle that has been largely drowned out by the shrill cries of 'Information Revolution.' |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Telecommunication -- Canada -- History
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Telecommunication policy -- Canada -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
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Telecommunication
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Telecommunication policy
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Telekommunikation
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Telecommunicatiesector.
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Canada
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Kanada
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Babe, Robert E
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ISBN |
9781442680425 |
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1442680423 |
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