Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection, and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System (AEI Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation)

Mueller, Milton L., Jr.

ISBN 10: 026213327X / ISBN 13: 9780262133272

Editore: The Mit Press / The Aei Press / American Enterprise Institute, 1997

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Xiii, 213 Pp. Blue Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket; Lower Edge Of Page Block With Stamp "Sale Book", No Wear, No Other Marks. Aei Commissioned 25 Books Promoting Telecommunication Deregulation, For Unknown Reasons As They Received Not One Request From Actual Consumers Or Philosophically-Minded Educators For Such Greed-Serving Balderdash. There Is No Evidence That Anyone, Anywhere, For Any Reason, Has Actually Read This Book Through. It Is A Brick In The Wall Of Misleading Information By Lobbyists That Floods The Media.

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• Titolo: Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection, and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System (AEI Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation)
• Editore: The Mit Press / The Aei Press / American Enterprise Institute
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 026213327X
• ISBN 13: 9780262133272
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
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Interconnection of competing networks is a critical issue in telecommunications policy. Likewise, the reconciliation of traditional universal service goals (a nationwide telecommunications network connecting as many citizens as possible) with the new paradigm of free market competition is one of the central problems facing regulators. In a work bridging telecommunications policy and history, Milton Mueller shows that much of what we think we know about these subjects is influenced by historical myths promoted by the telephone companies. The book provides a detailed analysis of historical experience with universal service and interconnection. Universal service service entered the vocabulary of American telecommunications in 1907. The universality of telephone communications became an issue in the early 1900s, Mueller shows, because of the existence of competing telephone systems that were not connected to each other. Mueller advances the view that unregulated competition between unconnected telephone networks played a major role in the creation of a universal telephone infrastructure in the United States. His analysis of this period leads to a fundamental change in our understanding of how and why the American telephone system became a monopoly, the history of universal service, and the economic effects of interconnection.