Connecting Alaskans
Subtitle: telecommunications in Alaska from telegraph to broadband
By: Heather E. Hudson
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781602232686
Subjects: Telecommunication; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Alaska's first information highway; title: Expansion after World War II and "the talking lady of the North"; title: Early broadcasting; title: Privatizing the Alaska communications system; title: The beginning of the satellite era; title: The NASA experiments; title: From satellite experiments to commercial service; title: Telephone service for every village; title: Broadcasting and teleconferencing for rural Alaska; title: Rural television : from RATNET to ARCS; title: Deregulation and disruption; title: State planning and policy; title: Alaska's local telephone companies; title: The phone wars; title: Distance learning : from satellites to the internet; title: Telemedicine in Alaska; title: A new century : the growth of mobile and broadband; title: Past and future connections.