Telecommunications in Canada : technology, industry, and government / / Robert E. Babe

• Autore: Babe Robert E.
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993; ©1990
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 384/.0971
• Soggetto topico: Telecommunication - Canada - History; Telecommunication policy - Canada - History
• Soggetto geografico: Kanada; Canada
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS -- 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 ; Telephone 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 ; CNCP 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 ; Parliamentary 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' â€? 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 ; OriginThe 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.'
• Titolo autorizzato: Telecommunications in Canada
• ISBN: 1-282-05627-1; 9786612056277; 1-4426-8042-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780419203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II