Topic
V 1 AT&T
* 1.1 Alexander Graham Bell
* 1.2 "Mr. Watson, Come Here"
* 1.3 photophone
* 1.4 radio telephony
V 2 Bell Telephone Company
* 2.1 1877
* 2.2 Western Electric
V 2.3 vertically integrated monopoly
* exercised patents
* ran long distance network
* refused to interconnect competitors
V 3 Kingsbury Commitment
* 3.1 AT&T cancelled acquisition of Western Union (1910)
* 3.2 the principle of universal service
* 3.3 exempted AT&T from Sherman anti-trust
V 3.4 natural monopoly
* made sense of having a single company run a complex operation
* radio
* cable television
* 3.5 rate regulation
V 4 Federal Communications Commission
* 4.1 Franklin Roosevelt
* 4.2 Federal Communications Act 1934
V 4.3 defined AT&T as a common carrier
* offer service on an equal basis
* prohibited from having interest in the content
V 5 AT&T Breakup
* 5.1 competitors could not sell equipment within the Bell system
V 5.2 foreign attachments
* Hush-a-phone
* Carterphone
* 5.3 Western Electric prices were too high
V 5.4 Modified Final Judgement
* AT&T sold local phone companies
* seven RBOCs
V 6 Wireless/Radio
* 6.1 Marconi wireless telegraph (1896)
* 6.2 ship-to-shore communication
* 6.3 land-based radios in police cars in Detroit (1920s)
* 6.4 walkie talkies
V 6.5 Citizen Band (CB) radio
* 1975
* Radio Shack
* modeled on truck drivers
* 6.6 telephone pager
V 7 Microwave
* 7.1 telephone connections between large cities
* 7.2 model for satellites
* 7.3 AT&T's Telstar (1962)
V 8 Digital Wireless phones
* 8.1 introduced in 1995
* 8.2 dominated by AT&T and RBOCs
* 8.3 no technical standard in US
* 8.4 most of the world uses GSM
* 8.5 US fell behind in mobile telephony
V 9 Telecommunications Act of 1996
* 9.1 barriers to entry between industries were eliminated
* 9.2 local telephone-long distance-television
* 9.3 one stop shopping
V 9.4 mergers
V Verizon
* Bell Atlantic
* NYNEX
* GTE
V SBC
* Southwestern Bell
* Pacific Telesis
* BellSouth
V AT&T
* SBC
* remaining Baby Bells
V Qwest
* USWest
V 10 Phone as the Third Screen
V 10.1 three screens
* movie screen
* television screen
* phone screen
V 11 Telephone connections
* 11.1 modems
* 11.2 DSL
* 11.3 T1
* 11.4 copper wire
* 11.5 coaxial cable
* 11.6 fiber-optic
* 11.7 Ethernet
* 11.8 VOIP
V 12 Wireless Networks
V 12.1 First generation
* analog
* AMPS
V 12.2 Second generation
* digital networks
* compression
* smaller size
* GSM
* SMS
V 12.3 Third generation
* UTMS
* 3GSM
V 12.4 Fourth Generation
* WiMaX: Worldwide Interoperabiity for Microwave Access
* LTE: Long Term Evolution
V 12.5 Wi-Fi
* 802.11
* wifi clouds
* high speed data