A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of
the republic to the 21st century. Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely …

Shaping American Telecommunications examines the technical, regulatory, and economic
forces that have shaped the development of American telecommunications services. This …

Between 1894 and 1919 the US telecommunications industry underwent a fundamental
policy shift, from unprecedented private competition to regulated monopoly. This …

Deregulating Telecommunications critically examines the transition from monopoly to
competition in the US and Canadian telecommunications industries. Accessibly written with …

The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of
the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900 …

Although the history of US Telecommunications began in the first half of the 19th century
with the invention of the telegraph, the modern era started in 1876 with Alexander Graham …

This book is a history of the formative era of the first electrical communications media in the
United States. It considers how they worked and why they mattered. Its theme is the …

Purpose–The aim of this article is to show that US public‐service telecommunications,
developing through a complex historical process, both engendered and depended on …

This unusual history focuses not only on those who advanced transatlantic cable
communication, but also on those who harbored alternative ideas. They might seem …

Dot-Dash to Dot.Com: How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the
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