Connecting Alaskans : Telecommunications in Alaska from Telegraph to Broadband /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fairbanks, AK :
University of Alaska Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Alaska's first information highway
- Expansion after World War II and "the talking lady of the North"
- Early broadcasting
- Privatizing the Alaska communications system
- The beginning of the satellite era
- The NASA experiments
- From satellite experiments to commercial service
- Telephone service for every village
- Broadcasting and teleconferencing for rural Alaska
- Rural television : from RATNET to ARCS
- Deregulation and disruption
- State planning and policy
- Alaska's local telephone companies
- The phone wars
- Distance learning : from satellites to the internet
- Telemedicine in Alaska
- A new century : the growth of mobile and broadband
- Past and future connections.