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Page 66
... tele- phone service is a textbook case of a natural monopoly . Par- ticularly in fiber - optic networks , incremental costs are virtu- ally zero ; no money needs to be spent to install new lines to the home or maintain the existing ...
... tele- phone service is a textbook case of a natural monopoly . Par- ticularly in fiber - optic networks , incremental costs are virtu- ally zero ; no money needs to be spent to install new lines to the home or maintain the existing ...
Page 70
... tele- communications . At the 1987 GlobeCom conference in To- kyo , Snelling issued a bold statement to American industry . If the government did not want the telephone companies to compete with the precious cable monopolies , so be it ...
... tele- communications . At the 1987 GlobeCom conference in To- kyo , Snelling issued a bold statement to American industry . If the government did not want the telephone companies to compete with the precious cable monopolies , so be it ...
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... 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 private network systems , the ...
... 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 private network systems , the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE RISE AND FALL OF TELEVISION | 7 |
THE AGE OF THE TELECOMPUTER 23 | 23 |
Copyright | |
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