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... antitrust arm of the Justice Department , Washington forced the breakup of the telephone company . Announced in 1982 and phased in over the following two years , this judicial action , presided over by Judge Harold Greene , was ...
... antitrust arm of the Justice Department , Washington forced the breakup of the telephone company . Announced in 1982 and phased in over the following two years , this judicial action , presided over by Judge Harold Greene , was ...
Page 71
... antitrust threat from a fiber tele- communications network . This system , however , would not be anything like a telephone - company monopoly . With the intelligence at the bottom of the pyramid , in a maze of per- sonal computers and ...
... antitrust threat from a fiber tele- communications network . This system , however , would not be anything like a telephone - company monopoly . With the intelligence at the bottom of the pyramid , in a maze of per- sonal computers and ...
Page 72
... antitrust courts and Congress have put them in chains . In order to take fiber to the home , for example , Snelling has to persuade the public - utilities commissions in four states that he is not writing off his copper wires too fast ...
... antitrust courts and Congress have put them in chains . In order to take fiber to the home , for example , Snelling has to persuade the public - utilities commissions in four states that he is not writing off his copper wires too fast ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE RISE AND FALL OF TELEVISION | 7 |
THE AGE OF THE TELECOMPUTER 23 | 23 |
Copyright | |
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