Universal Service 
Subtitle: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: AEI Press
Published: June 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780844740638
Subjects: Postal & telecommunications industries; Social history; Telecommunications; General; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Political Science / General; Industries - General; Reference - General
First sentence: THIS BOOK ATTEMPTS to change the way we think about competition, universal service, and interconnection in telecommunications by revisiting a critical period in the development of American telecommunications: the period of unbridled competition between the Bell System and independent telephone companies in the early 1900s.