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Captive Audience : The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age.

Crawford, Susan.

Captive Audience : The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (369 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 From Railroad to Telephone -- 2 Regulatory Pendulum: The Long Twilight Struggle -- 3 A Family Company -- 4 Going Vertical: Lessons from AOL-Time Warner -- 5 Netflix, Dead or Alive -- 6 The Peacock Disappears -- 7 The Programming Battering Ram -- 8 When Cable Met Wireless -- 9 The Biggest Squeeze of All -- 10 Comcast's Marathon -- 11 The FCC Approves -- 12 Aftermath -- 13 The AT& -- T-T-Mobile Deal -- 14 The Costly Gift -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Why Americans are paying much more for Internet access,and getting much less.

9780300167375


Telecommunication -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Antitrust law -- United States.


Electronic books.

KF2765 -- .C73 2013eb

384.0973

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