Telecommunications in Canada / / Robert Babe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Babe, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (363 p.)

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 predatory) business practices, and law and regulatory policies, in both historical and contemporary perspectives, Babe helps demystify current communication issues.Stressing the flexibility of communication 'technologies' on the one hand, and the element of corporate power on the other, 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.'

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Mythologies of Canadian Telecommunications -- 2. Telecommunications Today -- Part II. The Telegraph -- 3. Onset of Electronic Communication -- 4. Cartelization -- 5. The Telegraph Coast-to-Coast -- Part III. The Telephone -- 6. Inception -- 7. Independent Telephones -- 8. The Politics of Government Control -- 9. Western Reaction -- 10. Local-Exchange Competition in Ontario and Quebec -- 11. Long-Distance Competition and Reversed Rate Rebalancing -- 12. Natural Monopoly: Arguments and Evidence -- 13. Unnatural Monopoly: Predatory Pricing and the Cost Inquiry -- 14. Rate Regulation -- 15. Juggling Corporate Forms -- Part IV. Broadcasting and New Technologies -- 16. Broadcasting -- 17. Cable Television -- 18. Communications Satellites -- 19. Electronic Publishing -- Part V. Conclusion -- 20. Political Economy -- 21. An Information Revolution? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index