Telecommunications in Canada : technology, industry, and government /

This study provides Canada's first comprehensive, integrated treatment of the emergence and development of key communication sectors: telegraph telephones, cable TV, broadcasting, communication satellites, and electronic publishing. By focusing on real institutions, actual (and frequently preda...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Babe, Robert E., 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1990.
Colección:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Temas:
Telecommunication > Canada > History.
Telecommunication policy > Canada > History.
Télécommunications > Canada > Histoire.
Télécommunications > Politique gouvernementale > Canada > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
Telecommunication
Telecommunication policy
Telekommunikation
Telecommunicatiesector.
Canada
Kanada
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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' â€? 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
  • 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

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