LEADER 05895nam 2200817 450 001 9910780419203321 005 20230912133446.0 010 $a1-282-05627-1 010 $a9786612056277 010 $a1-4426-8042-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442680425 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004389 035 $a(OCoLC)244767061 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10200954 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000311172 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11264605 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000311172 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10315767 035 $a(PQKB)10194056 035 $a(CaPaEBR)417413 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600774 035 $a(DE-B1597)464912 035 $a(OCoLC)944177533 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442680425 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672001 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257687 035 $a(OCoLC)958514140 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/n6g66c 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/5/417413 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672001 035 $a(OCoLC)1100705983 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105272 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3251399 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004389 100 $a20160922e19931990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTelecommunications in Canada $etechnology, industry, and government /$fRobert E. Babe 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1993. 210 4$dİ1990 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-6738-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS -- 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 327 $aTelephone 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 327 $aCNCP 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 327 $aParliamentary 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' a??? 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 327 $aOriginThe 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 330 $aThis 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.' 606 $aTelecommunication$zCanada$xHistory 606 $aTelecommunication policy$zCanada$xHistory 607 $aKanada$2swd 607 $aKanada$2gnd 607 $aCanada$2fast 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTelecommunication$xHistory. 615 0$aTelecommunication policy$xHistory. 676 $a384/.0971 700 $aBabe$b Robert E.$0973097 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780419203321 996 $aTelecommunications in Canada$93678416 997 $aUNINA