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Telecommunications in Canada /

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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Autor principal: Babe, Robert E., 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1990.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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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