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Connecting Alaskans : Telecommunications in Alaska from Telegraph to Broadband /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hudson, Heather E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2015]
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.