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Telecommunications in Canada : technology, industry, and government / / Robert E. Babe
| Telecommunications in Canada : technology, industry, and government / / Robert E. Babe |
| Autore | Babe Robert E. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina | 384/.0971 |
| Soggetto topico |
Telecommunication - Canada - History
Telecommunication policy - Canada - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-05627-1
9786612056277 1-4426-8042-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Mythologies of Canadian Telecommunications -- 2. Telecommunications Today -- 3. Onset of Electronic Communication -- 4. Cartelization -- 5. The Telegraph Coast-to-Coast -- 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 -- 16. Broadcasting -- 17. Cable Television -- 18. Communications Satellites -- 19. Electronic Publishing -- 20. Political Economy -- 21. An Information Revolution? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455923403321 |
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| Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Telecommunications in Canada : technology, industry, and government / / Robert E. Babe
| Telecommunications in Canada : technology, industry, and government / / Robert E. Babe |
| Autore | Babe Robert E. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina | 384/.0971 |
| Soggetto topico |
Telecommunication - Canada - History
Telecommunication policy - Canada - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-05627-1
9786612056277 1-4426-8042-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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' � 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780419203321 |
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Babe Robert E.
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| Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Telecommunications in Canada : technology, industry, and government / / Robert E. Babe
| Telecommunications in Canada : technology, industry, and government / / Robert E. Babe |
| Autore | Babe Robert E. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina | 384/.0971 |
| Soggetto topico |
Telecommunication - Canada - History
Telecommunication policy - Canada - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-05627-1
9786612056277 1-4426-8042-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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' � 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818526203321 |
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Babe Robert E.
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| Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky meet Harold Innis : media, power, and democracy / / Robert E. Babe
| Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky meet Harold Innis : media, power, and democracy / / Robert E. Babe |
| Autore | Babe Robert E. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302.23 |
| Collana | Critical Media Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Mass media - Social aspects
Economics - Sociological aspects |
| ISBN | 0-7391-2369-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Introducing Harold Innis; Chapter One: Foundations; Chapter Two: Staples Thesis and Medium Theory; Chapter Three: Time, Space, and Medium Theory; Chapter Four: Political Economy, Medium Theory, and Existentialism; Chapter Five: Media and Scholarship; Chapter Six: Media and Public Opinion; II: Wilbur Schramm Meets Innis; Chapter Seven: Beginnings; Chapter Eight: Media Process and Effects; Chapter Nine: Media History, Education, Free Press, Democracy; III: Chomsky and Innis Meet; Chapter Ten: Meet Noam Chomsky; Chapter Eleven: Visions and Strategies
Chapter Twelve: Propaganda and DemocracyIV: Conclusion; Chapter Thirteen: Innis and the Network Society; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788114603321 |
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Babe Robert E.
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| Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky meet Harold Innis : media, power, and democracy / / Robert E. Babe
| Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky meet Harold Innis : media, power, and democracy / / Robert E. Babe |
| Autore | Babe Robert E. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302.23 |
| Collana | Critical Media Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Mass media - Social aspects
Economics - Sociological aspects |
| ISBN | 0-7391-2369-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Introducing Harold Innis; Chapter One: Foundations; Chapter Two: Staples Thesis and Medium Theory; Chapter Three: Time, Space, and Medium Theory; Chapter Four: Political Economy, Medium Theory, and Existentialism; Chapter Five: Media and Scholarship; Chapter Six: Media and Public Opinion; II: Wilbur Schramm Meets Innis; Chapter Seven: Beginnings; Chapter Eight: Media Process and Effects; Chapter Nine: Media History, Education, Free Press, Democracy; III: Chomsky and Innis Meet; Chapter Ten: Meet Noam Chomsky; Chapter Eleven: Visions and Strategies
Chapter Twelve: Propaganda and DemocracyIV: Conclusion; Chapter Thirteen: Innis and the Network Society; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811819203321 |
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Babe Robert E.
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| Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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