Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
6 Ιαν 2010 · Introduction. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010. Peter Temin. With. Louis Galambos. Chapter. Get access. Summary. The forces that would break apart the mighty Bell System within fifteen years were already visible in 1970 to those who cared to look.
6 Ιαν 2010 · Everyone inside and outside the Bell System had grown up under Vails theory of a consolidated, universal network furnishing end-to-end service. The edges of this concept had been nibbled away over the previous decade as the Carterfone, Specialized Common Carriers , and Execunet decisions were implemented and extended, but the basic structure of ...
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983.
The Bell System, which had formed the backbone of American telephone service for a century, would no longer exist. No single company would be able to exercise the sort of end-to-end responsibility that AT&T had long held for most telecommunications in the United States.
Here's a summary of each episode. Don't miss any of them: 1.1. The Trigger Effect. Man's dependence. on complex technologies, the New York City power blackout of 1965, and its beginning on the Nile River. 2. Death in the Morning. Precious. metals, magnetism, atomic energy and the effect of Hiroshima, 1945. 3. Distant Voices.
The breakup of the Bell System resulted in the creation of seven independent companies that were formed from the original twenty-two AT&T-controlled members of the System. [ 5 ] On January 1, 1984, these companies were NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Southwestern Bell Corporation, BellSouth, and US West.
In this book, Kenneth W. Thompson traces the principles supported by these and other political realists and applies them to funda- mental problems in world politics and foreign policy.
