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