Telecommunications in Canada /

Telecommunications in Canada / / Robert Babe.

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

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