Telecommunications in Canada: Technology, Industry, and Government

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University of Toronto Press, Jan 1, 1990 - Technology & Engineering - 363 pages

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.'

 

Contents

Mythologies of Canadian Telecommunications
3
Telecommunications Today
22
Onset of Electronic Communication
35
Cartelization
45
The Telegraph CoasttoCoast
54
Inception
65
Independent Telephones
74
The Politics of Government Control
91
Rate Regulation
158
Juggling Corporate Forms
175
Broadcasting
199
Cable Television
208
Communications Satellites
219
Electronic Publishing
229
Political Economy
239
An Information Revolution?
247

Western Reaction
102
LocalExchange Competition in Ontario and Quebec
114
LongDistance Competition and Reversed Rate Rebalancing
127
Arguments and Evidence
137
Predatory Pricing and the Cost Inquiry
150
NOTES
259
BIBLIOGRAPHY
319
INDEX
343
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

Annual Report AT&T Bell Canada Bell Telephone Company Bell's Board of Railway British Columbia broadcasting C.F. Sise Cable Television Canadian Pacific Canadian Pacific Railway Canadian telecommunications Canadian Telephone Canadian Transport Commission cent charter CNCP Telecommunications Commissioners for Canada Committee on Telephone Company of Canada company's competition connections corporate Cost Inquiry Department of Communications economic electronic equipment facilities federal Grandpré History House of Commons Ibid information revolution interconnection jurisdiction lease lines long distance long-distance Maclean Manitoba Manitoba Telephone System markets ment million Montreal Telegraph municipal natural monopoly Northern Electric Ontario operations Ottawa ownership Parliament patent provincial Quebec radio Railway Commissioners rate rebalancing regulation regulatory revenues satellites Select Committee subscribers subsidiary TCTS technological nationalism tele Tele-Direct Telecom Decision CRTC Telegraph Company telephone service Telesat Canada Telidon tion toll Toronto TransCanada Telephone System transmission Western Union Wires

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About the author (1990)

ROBERT E. BABE teaches in the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa.

Bibliographic information

TitleTelecommunications in Canada: Technology, Industry, and Government
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
AuthorsRobert E. Babe, Richard Collins
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, 1990
ISBN0802067387, 9780802067388
Length363 pages
Subjects › 

Technology & Engineering / Telecommunications
  
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